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IRC Client
by Emil Sedgh on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @01:02
is there any plan to reactive the IRC plugin for Kopete?
or porting konversation?

im just runing Kopete from KDE 3.Amarok pre-2 'plays' music, KMail is almost usable and stable (but its not using Akonadi, right?)

KDE 4 is becoming more and more usable...
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Re: IRC Client
by Thomas Zander on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @02:11
Everybody raise his hand that still
a) has an icq account
b) has friends that also have an icq account, but have no jabber account.

If the amount of hands is low; thats the reason why nobody has stepped up to fix the ICQ plugin :)
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  • Re: IRC Client
    by Beat Wolf on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @02:26
    *rises hand*
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  • Re: IRC Client
    by Kevin Kofler on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @02:33
    The parent post was talking about IRC, not ICQ.
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    • Re: IRC Client
      by Chani on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @03:16
      and just before anyone starts worrying about the state of icq: I was using icq with kopete's kde4 code back in *2006*, when having a chat window open without crashing was a big thing. ;)
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  • Re: IRC Client
    by onety-three on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @03:15
    The ICQ-plugin probably receives the most attention at the moment - Roman Jarosz is simply amazing. His work will be one of my main reasons to switch to KDE4 once it's ready for my needs.

    By the way, don't judge a protocol's popularity by the popularity in your own country... It varies a lot. From my experience here in southern Germany, nearly everybody uses ICQ, a few lost souls are still on MSN or AIM, and almost nobody uses Yahoo or (alas!) Jabber.
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  • Re: IRC Client
    by Vide on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @11:55
    He was talking about IRC, anyway it's recent news that AOL recently started an experiment integrating AIM/ICQ in Jabber (so you can login with your AIM account using the XMPP protocol)
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  • Re: IRC Client
    by she on Sunday 27/Jan/2008, @08:02
    well personally i use IRC with xchat these days

    but when i was on windows, i was using icq a lot


    i still hope something like licq, but maybe smaller, or "embeddable", can show up ... i want a tiny tiny tray icon without any popups on default
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  • Re: IRC Client
    by MamiyaOtaru on Sunday 27/Jan/2008, @13:08
    /me raises hand
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Re: IRC Client
by Eike Hein on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @07:57
> or porting konversation?

Konversation will definitely be ported. The usual mix of real life distractions have put us a bit behind our desired schedule on this one, but it's coming.
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Re: IRC Client
by Lee on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @09:10
I'd like to see an IRC plugin for kopete more than konversation. However, current IRC implementations in all IM clients seem to suck. They need to (in order of importance)

* stay logged in to channels without opening windows, as if THEY were the account, and the server connection was just a meta-connection.

* show history from a channel when you open it to chat, just like popping up konversation would, if it had been logged in to a channel.

* auto-identify with nickservs

* be able to ignore specific messages from the server, and bots, so there aren't endless annoying new messages when just logging in.

I don't think there's anything else I'd need actually. With those few things, I could forget that IRC is "special" and use it like any other IM account.
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Re: IRC Client
by kwilliam on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @10:13
I remember reading in the developer blogs that there's some new IRC client for Qt4. I can't remember it's name, but someone mentioned that since Konversation wasn't ported it would be a good "excuse" to try this new one. (It had the unique feature of keeping the IRC connection open even when you closed all the windows, or something like that.) I simply cannot remember it's name. Anyway, since IRC is an essential means of communicating among developers, I'm sure some sweet IRC solutions will be available for KDE 4.1, whether it's Konversation, Kopete, or something else.

And I suggest the guy who replied about ICQ get some sleep, or a new pair of glasses, lol. :-)
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  • Re: IRC Client
    by Mark Kretschmann on Saturday 26/Jan/2008, @10:22
    This new IRC client is Quassel, developed by a friend of mine:

    http://quassel-irc.org/
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Re: IRC Client
by PhilippeP on Wednesday 02/Jul/2008, @05:22
This is something I really miss in Kopete-kde4 ...
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