Instant messaging application for KDE 4.9

[Roy Dragseth]

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 At first I thought it might've been replaced by some other Telepathy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