I've been using Phex on my Linux box for the past 3 weeks with no complaints. I'm surprised Phex isn't more popular since there are no other open source gui clients for linux. Anyways, I was wondering what the (near) future holds for Phex. Are there any plans to implement any of the features that everyone is dying for? I realise that stability is probably a priority, but from what I have experienced, it doesn't seem to be an issue. Here are the two features I am wondering about.

1. Instant Messaging/Chat
(I'm not too fond of Gnucleus' or Defender's approach to this)

2. Segmented downloads from multiple hosts
(To my knowlege, only XoloX has implemented this and I haven't gotten a chance to try it out, not sure if it runs under Wine)

Any info would be great. Congrats/thanx are in order for Konrad and the Phex developers. Later.