Hi..
I'm running KDE 4.9 from kde-unstable on Fedora 17. Today, I was searching in the menus for Kopete and found that it is not installed. At first I thought it might've been replaced by some other Telepathy client app. But I couldn't find any in yum list.
Is Kopete still the preferred instant messaging app for KDE?
regards,
Syam
On Aug 20, 2012 6:33 AM, "Sonic" get.sonic@gmail.com wrote:
Hi..
I'm running KDE 4.9 from kde-unstable on Fedora 17. Today, I was
searching in the menus for Kopete and found that it is not installed.
At first I thought it might've been replaced by some other Telepathy
client app. But I couldn't find any in yum list.
The KDE Telepathy packages are ktp-*. I don't like that naming either but it's what upstream uses so that's what Fedora uses.
Is Kopete still the preferred instant messaging app for KDE?
KDE Telepathy is the preferred instant messenger although Kopete is still available (just not installed by default). KDE Telepathy should be installed by default and should show up in your system tray (it's a round symbol). If it's not there you can add it in the system tray settings. The account settings should be accessible from both that system tray icon and in system settings under IM Settings I believe...
On 08/26/2012 03:57 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Sonic wrote:
At first I thought it might've been replaced by some other Telepathy client app.
FYI, Kopete is not a Telepathy client app, it has its own implementation of the protocols. Kopete was developed long before Telepathy.
Well, that's what I meant. I've been hearing about Telepathy for a long time and I thought KDE had finally dropped Kopete and switched to some Telepathy based client. Didn't just guess its name was "ktp*".
Anyway, I tried ktp and it crashes immediately after connecting. Kopete used to work perfectly. I'm not very active with chat, so I didn't investigate further.
Syam
On Sunday, August 26, 2012 08:26:53 Sonic wrote:
On 08/26/2012 03:57 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Sonic wrote:
At first I thought it might've been replaced by some other Telepathy client app.
FYI, Kopete is not a Telepathy client app, it has its own implementation of the protocols. Kopete was developed long before Telepathy.
Well, that's what I meant. I've been hearing about Telepathy for a long time and I thought KDE had finally dropped Kopete and switched to some Telepathy based client. Didn't just guess its name was "ktp*".
Anyway, I tried ktp and it crashes immediately after connecting. Kopete used to work perfectly. I'm not very active with chat, so I didn't investigate further.
Thanks for this info, this thread brought the ktp-line of packages to my attention and to much delight it works with our jabber server which kopete doesn't. But, to my suprise when I try to open a chat through the contact list plasma applet it starts empathy-chat which is a gnome app. Any hints on what I'm missing here? Is there a "pure" KDE solution?
I'm still on KDE 4.8.5.
r.
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 11:01:12 Roy Dragseth wrote:
On Sunday, August 26, 2012 08:26:53 Sonic wrote:
On 08/26/2012 03:57 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Sonic wrote:
At first I thought it might've been replaced by some other Telepathy client app.
FYI, Kopete is not a Telepathy client app, it has its own implementation of the protocols. Kopete was developed long before Telepathy.
Well, that's what I meant. I've been hearing about Telepathy for a long time and I thought KDE had finally dropped Kopete and switched to some Telepathy based client. Didn't just guess its name was "ktp*".
Anyway, I tried ktp and it crashes immediately after connecting. Kopete used to work perfectly. I'm not very active with chat, so I didn't investigate further.
Thanks for this info, this thread brought the ktp-line of packages to my attention and to much delight it works with our jabber server which kopete doesn't. But, to my suprise when I try to open a chat through the contact list plasma applet it starts empathy-chat which is a gnome app. Any hints on what I'm missing here? Is there a "pure" KDE solution?
I'm still on KDE 4.8.5.
Ahhh, removing empathy and a relogin solved the problem now I have ktp-text-ui instead.
Sorry for the noise, r.
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