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by Martin on Friday 29/Oct/2004, @00:01

Well, I don't need Instant Messaging in terms of ICQ/MSN/etc. but
I would really like to use Kopete for IRC. I'm still using mIRC
on WINE because I could not find a decent IRC app for Linux.
KVIRC is far too geeky - I mean look at the strange titlebars - the
configuration dialogs: No way! So Kopete has a really useable UI
but unfortunately you just cannot add a new IRC server. This makes
it impossible to use it for IRC. If this is solved one day - I'm gonna
switch. In the meantime I guess mIRC will do ;-)

At work I recently switched to Evolution because I need Exchange
capabilities. So far I didn't regret it. Evolution is really miles
ahead here: It "just works"(TM). Especially I like the color coding
which exists in Thunderbird, too. A simple feature, but really useful
and I simulated it in KMail somehow by assigning a key to "Important" -
so I could at least have one "color".

So - all in all - many results are understandable IMHO but in general
KDE is on the right track. Open Source applications usually tend to
be wallflowers for a long time but somehow get off the ground one day
and surpass any competition (be it commercial or not).

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Re: Kopete
by Michael Thaler on Friday 29/Oct/2004, @01:33

Have you tried konversation (http://www.konversation.org/)?

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Re: Kopete
by Jan Vidar Krey on Friday 29/Oct/2004, @02:40

I agree with Martin on this one. I haven't tried konversation yet, but it looks like xchat (my choice for the past 4 years), so if it's stable I'm happy! :)

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Re: Kopete
by Will Stephenson on Friday 29/Oct/2004, @02:28

> unfortunately you just cannot add a new IRC server

Which version?

I put a lot of elbow grease into making this work for KDE 3.3, so any version of Kopete since 0.9.0 should allow you to add new networks and servers.

Configure Kopete->Accounts->(edit IRC account)->Connection->Edit Network...

It's been tested by connecting to various internal and obscure networks.

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Re: Kopete
by cies on Friday 29/Oct/2004, @02:48

on Geoges recommendation i tried irssi.org, and I'm loving it.

Konsole+irssi for me :)

TIP: compile irssi, then there's nearly no dependencies.

_cies

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Re: Kopete
by brockers on Friday 29/Oct/2004, @11:00

Ya, I gotta totally disagree with your evolution evaluation. Kontact started later than evolution but the newest versions have quicly surpassed it. The LDAP support "just works" on our novell network, and the echange connector works pretty darn well. Now I cannot live with features like GOOD encryption support, kopete integration, and saved searchs (what was called views in Lotus Notes.)

Bobby

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