Comments on: Kopete hacking session #1

By: LinuxSurfer

LinuxSurfer — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:13:25 +0000

Hey Sweet! This feature is in there.
Configure->Behavior->Events->Treat all chats on the current desktop like active chats.

Wow, that is not obvious at all. I think the labeling was better back in 3.5.x.

Anyway, yea! I can move on to another patch contribution.

By: Quintasan

Quintasan — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:11:19 +0000

A simple feature like clickable links in status messages would be nice
http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#idea61699

By: LinuxSurfer

LinuxSurfer — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:22:30 +0000

I should mention I’m trying to write this feature myself but I’m new to KDE development so it’s taking me a long time to figure this out. Plus I only have a couple hours a week I can work on it.

By: LinuxSurfer

LinuxSurfer — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:20:06 +0000

I’ve been using Kopete with google chat.
One feature I’d really like to see is an option like:
“Incoming Message received from un-Open Chat Window”

I like to get the notification pop up that says “Someone new is trying to chat with you” but the “Incoming Message Has Been Received” gives a notification on every received chat. It’s REALLY annoying if I have multiple chat windows already open and active.

If this feature is there and I’m just missing it, please let me know.

By: Ahmed Kamal

Ahmed Kamal — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:43:15 +0000

Awesome job

+1 for proxy support .. This totally kills kopete for me at work

By: Oceanwatcher

Oceanwatcher — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:36:39 +0000

Great to see someone doing something for Kopete!

Here is a challenge for you:

I have several different accounts added in Kopete. And I prefer to be invisible in a couple of them due to very nice, but also very chatty people. So every time I log in to my computer I have to click and set the other accounts to “Online” as Kopete only allows one general status for all accounts instead of individual default statuses.

I would like to have a setting for each account that gives the default status for that account. That way I do not need to do this every time I log in.

The best would of course be to be able to set this on a per contact basis, but this requires support from the IM system, and as of today, I think that only ICQ supports this.

By: Cassiano Leal

Cassiano Leal — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:11:25 +0000

Looks nice, man! Congrats!
One feature that I would really like to see in Kopete is the ability to set proxies on a per-account basis (per-identity maybe?). This is the killer feature in Pidgin for me ATM. Kopete is my IM of choice at home, but this lack of individual proxying stops me from using it at work.
Thanks for spending time on top of Kopete!

By: flextime

flextime — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:11:35 +0000

Great Job Its good to know that someone is hacking on Kopete again! I think the most important feature that it is still missing is http proxy support. If someone managed to get Kopete to respect KDE’s http proxy settings, it would be awesome. Its a feature that has been promised since the KDE3 release but has yet to materialise

Thanks for all the effort!

By: anton

anton — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:02:02 +0000

Have just filled a wish for a small improvement: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207064

In short the wish is to add “view contact info” button to the “Add Contact to Server List” dialog for ICQ.

And the great long awaited wish is to have voice/video support for jabber
protocol.

http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php?sid=5f96a7038c6f51393656cff0393941e0#idea46848

It can be done with jingle library, moreover there were gsoc project for this 1 or 2 years ago, but no news since then and the feature is not there.

Also this feature were listed in 4.3 release plan, then moved to 4.4 release plan
http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.4_Feature_Plan#kdenetwork and is still marked as TODO.

By: me

me — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:22:24 +0000

Great! Indeed, kopete needs some more love! Since you’re open for more ideas and i got something that bugs me for a while: file transfers don’t work as long as you use otr encryption, i’d love to see that fixed.

By: mrafv

mrafv — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:34:12 +0000

*cough*
http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php?mode=idea&i=49026&sid=7c69d5078179c5b3f609f2082c89a8c6
*cough*

By: afiestas

afiestas — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:58:03 +0000

@Minatolf
I’m glad you like it!
The piece of code I hacked on is very far of the yahoo plugin, so I can’t answer your question The only thing I know is that kopete will receive “soon?” a new mega-plugin called telepathy, which maybe will improve your situation. Maybe you should search in google about telepathy+yahoo.

By: Minatolf

Minatolf — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:29:11 +0000

Nice! This is a feature I’ve been expecting for some time, thanks. Another thing, do you think it is possible to see my yahoo contacts from my Windows Live Messenger account? I don’t quite like having to use a yahoo account just to chat with my friends that also use that service.

By: Dread Knight

Dread Knight — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:33:31 +0000

Great job

I don’t use kopete when on linux/kde, because I find it the most awful KDE app. Empathy seems to have a promising future… I hope indeed Kopete will get more love…