@fabio@adiz Are you following slidge development yet? For me it offers pretty much everything I might need in terms of bridges except for #IRC, but Biboumi already exists to take care of that one.
Slidge doesn't look very mature yet, but given some time it may be the thing we were missing. I wouldn't mind some cleaner #XMPP clients for desktop use either, but the existing options aren't all terrible at the least.