Thank you for the reply :). 0irc looks at first glance to be close to what I am imagining, in that it's a litestep module. The changes I would like to see to a module like 0irc are graphical.

It's close, but I would like to find one that:

1) has a completely transperant background.

2) doesn't look like it's in a window. I mean, I would like to see scrolling chat on my screen that looks like it's actually a part of the background. 0irc in all those screenshots still has some kind of frame around the chat itself-- I would like to have that frame removed.

Later today I'll setup 0irc and goof around with it.