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Split view (having multiple chat views at the same time) is a very interesting feature and certainly to be considered ;-)

What I have in mind:

• Split vertical or horizontal should do for starters (former is probably more important than the latter)
• Eventually share the input line and send input to focused widget
  + That has the disadvantage that one can easily write in wrong channel if focused widget is not marked properly (properly = blinking stars and dancing ponies)
  + Another approach to work around this problem is to assign colors to the chatview widgets and colorize the input line in the same color to make them easily associated
  + Last option would be to have every chatview have it's own input line (which doesn't look very well but is productive)
• Buffer list controls current focused widget
  + Maybe also add context menu items to apply a buffer change to a specific widget (e.g. right click -> apply to widget # 1 ... even though widget # 2 is focused)

Advanced stuff I have in mind (very very doubtable of common use):

• Split the input line if only vertical splits are present, changing focus depending on where you click on that input line
  "[ Input to Widget # 1 | Input to Widget # 2 ]"
  + add a faint line between areas and text for the areas which are not used
  + This could probably be implemented by a custom input widget that can be stacked to each other, overlapping each other if necessary
  + That way it still looks like one input line but the user has the power of 3 input lines
• Widget should, as always, be freely movable
• Dragging channels from the buffer list to a chatview widget should change it's buffer
• Automatic reordering: if only one input line is available (by design or by user setting), the focused widget should always closest to left border of input line (or right in a RTL environment), maybe reorder the widget with some fancy graphical effect (qtdemo has very nice movement animations)