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Kopete is full of tricks
« on: July 23, 2009, 02:14:44 PM »
The trouble with GMail Talk, is that -- well, to put it bluntly, we all have a relative or "friend" who can be annoying. You can't take them off your GMail chat list in case they get upset, but every time you log in, you dread their appearance!!

Well you can log out of GMail chat and use Kopete instead. OK you can use a few others, too. Anyway, what I have found is that blanket invisibility doesn't work on Kopete with GMail But individual invisibility does. Right-click on the annoying relative's ID, and hover the mouse down to their gmail address at the bottom of the menu. On the sub-menu, select "Set Availability" and what you do, ONLY applies to that person. And it works. Or it seemed to.

A related point is that you can set up a "Windows Live" chat account without getting Hotmail. All you do is sign up using any email address you like. I had read something about them blocking Google stuff, but I was able to sign up using a googlemail (that's what we call it in the UK) account.

It was then a simple matter to track down my unfortunate M$ victim friends (I do try, really I do), and add them to my contacts on Kopete, and without any ado, they are available too.

Next time I see my gf, I'm going to update her computer (PCLinuxOS of course) and install Kopete. Get both her GMail and Hotmail accounts on it. I want to test the video link because currently she has aMSN and I cannot get the video link working with Kopete on my rig. So let's see what we can do!

At present, Kopete allows you to connect with:

AOL Instant Messenger, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, Jabber (includes GMail), Novell GroupWise, QQ, SMS, Winpopup, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger

An add-on is being developed to allow you to handle Facebook chat through it.

Does this program know any limits?

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Re: Kopete is full of tricks
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2009, 03:39:27 PM »
It sure seems like it is trying to cover all bases .... and so far succeeding.

Let us know how the video works out ..... I have not had occasion to try it yet.
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Re: Kopete is full of tricks
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2009, 04:01:15 PM »
Bad news is that Yahoo messenger no longer works. There is a patch on the net which will be incorporated into the KDE4 version, but no further work is due on the KDE3 version. It's said that the patch will backport into it though, so I have sent an email to the dev mailing list. It's beyond me!!
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Re: Kopete is full of tricks
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2009, 05:16:33 PM »
Quote from: davecs on July 23, 2009, 04:01:15 PM
Bad news is that Yahoo messenger no longer works. There is a patch on the net which will be incorporated into the KDE4 version, but no further work is due on the KDE3 version. It's said that the patch will backport into it though, so I have sent an email to the dev mailing list. It's beyond me!!


Other software also had problems with Yahoo lately so that is no surprise.

Pidgin released a new version to overcome the problems of changes in Yahoo.
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Re: Kopete is full of tricks
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2009, 10:35:04 PM »
davecs, yep, you're right - Kopete is wonderful IM client. I use it, charged with ICQ and Jabber accounts, so far - no problems at all :)
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Re: Kopete is full of tricks
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2009, 01:44:18 AM »
Quote from: JohnBoy on July 23, 2009, 05:16:33 PM

Pidgin released a new version to overcome the problems of changes in Yahoo.

Yes, I know that, I actually tried Pidgin first.There was just something about the UI that I found really unappealing! Just a personal thing.
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Re: Kopete is full of tricks
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2009, 02:04:16 AM »
If you are installing kopete from mini-me, you need to also install: libqca1-tls

I have reported this as a missing dependency in the Broken Packages section
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Re: Kopete is full of tricks
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2009, 10:06:17 AM »
The video link in Kopete when using MSN does sort of work. When I went down to see her, I took my eeePC and put that on her modem, and we could get the video links up, but when I came home, so I was at my end and she at hers, it didn't really work. It took ages for the request to appear on the other computer, and we never actually saw the webcam window, wondering whether that was down to network delay though.

I have Kopete on my KDE4 partition. The new version has added the Yahoo fix, the major disappointment is that it doesn't include IRC support any more. Although it tests to see if you have a webcam, it does not include any means of running it with the MSN chat box any more. Weird.

Everything else works OK though. Still a nice little front end.
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Re: Kopete is full of tricks
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2009, 10:45:19 AM »
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The new version has added the Yahoo fix, the major disappointment is that it doesn't include IRC support any more. Although it tests to see if you have a webcam, it does not include any means of running it with the MSN chat box any more. Weird.

That is strange ...... are they working on those elements or have they been deliberately dropped for the future, do you know?
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Re: Kopete is full of tricks
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2009, 11:15:19 AM »
I have read a bit. I think the absence of a control to start the webcam is probably an error that needs fixing, but I think the decision to drop IRC is deliberate, there is another KDE4 program to do that.
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Re: Kopete is full of tricks
« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2009, 10:55:44 PM »
Quote from: JohnBoy on July 23, 2009, 05:16:33 PM
Quote from: davecs on July 23, 2009, 04:01:15 PM
Bad news is that Yahoo messenger no longer works. There is a patch on the net which will be incorporated into the KDE4 version, but no further work is due on the KDE3 version. It's said that the patch will backport into it though, so I have sent an email to the dev mailing list. It's beyond me!!


Other software also had problems with Yahoo lately so that is no surprise.

Pidgin released a new version to overcome the problems of changes in Yahoo.


Yeah, yahoo becomes too close to Microsoft ..... (might help explain)  :D
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Re: Kopete is full of tricks
« Reply #11 on: August 02, 2009, 07:14:22 AM »
Quote from: davecs on July 23, 2009, 04:01:15 PM
Bad news is that Yahoo messenger no longer works. There is a patch on the net which will be incorporated into the KDE4 version, but no further work is due on the KDE3 version. It's said that the patch will backport into it though, so I have sent an email to the dev mailing list. It's beyond me!!

Are you talking about Yahoo with a web cam or just chat?  ???
I was using Pidgin until the Yahoo problem, then I switched to Kopete as that continued to work with Yahoo. It still does to this date, I don't use a web cam though. I am using 2007 completely updated. I have Yahoo, MSN, AIM, and Google running on it without a problem. 
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Re: Kopete is full of tricks
« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2009, 10:36:05 AM »
Quote from: davecs on July 23, 2009, 02:14:44 PM
The trouble with GMail Talk, is that -- well, to put it bluntly, we all have a relative or "friend" who can be annoying. You can't take them off your GMail chat list in case they get upset, but every time you log in, you dread their appearance!!

Well you can log out of GMail chat and use Kopete instead. OK you can use a few others, too. Anyway, what I have found is that blanket invisibility doesn't work on Kopete with GMail But individual invisibility does. Right-click on the annoying relative's ID, and hover the mouse down to their gmail address at the bottom of the menu. On the sub-menu, select "Set Availability" and what you do, ONLY applies to that person. And it works. Or it seemed to.
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Shame it doesn't work with msn ::) ;D
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Re: Kopete is full of tricks
« Reply #13 on: August 02, 2009, 07:04:07 PM »
Quote from: NoIBnds on August 02, 2009, 07:14:22 AM
Quote from: davecs on July 23, 2009, 04:01:15 PM
Bad news is that Yahoo messenger no longer works. There is a patch on the net which will be incorporated into the KDE4 version, but no further work is due on the KDE3 version. It's said that the patch will backport into it though, so I have sent an email to the dev mailing list. It's beyond me!!

Are you talking about Yahoo with a web cam or just chat?  ???
I was using Pidgin until the Yahoo problem, then I switched to Kopete as that continued to work with Yahoo. It still does to this date, I don't use a web cam though. I am using 2007 completely updated. I have Yahoo, MSN, AIM, and Google running on it without a problem. 

I read about trouble with Yahoo using Kopete ... Now that is strange, I use Yahoo every day running Kopete and have not seen any problems so far....  ???
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Re: Kopete is full of tricks
« Reply #14 on: August 03, 2009, 02:59:10 PM »
Kopete does work with MSN. The KDE4 versions works with Yahoo but not the KDE3 version.
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