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My high school friends and I settled for using Gain and Pidgin to enable the "secure" icon. :)
Ah, the good old days when I could just plug my IM services into one desktop app. I miss those days very much. Now I use three Electron apps on a typical work day.
Rambox and Franz both do this today. They are electron apps but you only need one for all your services.