Instant messaging application for KDE 4.9

[Sonic]

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At first I thought it might've been replaced by some other Telepathy 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

[John5342]

On Aug 20, 2012 6:33 AM, "Sonic" <get.sonic(a)gmail.com&gt; 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  At first I thought it might've been replaced by some other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...

[Kevin Kofler]

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  At first I thought it might've been replaced by some other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.

        Kevin Kofler

[Sonic]

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 At first I thought it might've been replaced by some other Telepathy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

[Dragseth Roy Einar]

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 At first I thought it might've been replaced by some other Telepathy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.

[Dragseth Roy Einar]

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.