The Kopete Handbook

The Kopete Handbook

Will Stephenson

Matt Rogers

Michaël Larouche

Revision 0.12 (2006-12-15)

Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

Kopete is KDE's multi-protocol instant messenger client.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Kopete, the KDE instant messaging client

Before starting...
What is Kopete?
More Kopete Information on the Web

Introduction to Instant Messaging

2. Getting Started

Creating Accounts
Go Online and Start Chatting!

3. Using Kopete

The Contact List

Layout of the Contact List window
Setting Your Presence
Start A Chat From The Contact List
Send A File
Organising Contacts
Configure Kopete
Exiting Kopete
Keyboard shortcuts

The Chat Window

Layout of the Chat Window
Group Chats in Kopete
File Transfers
Keyboard Shortcuts

4. Configuring Kopete

Global Shortcuts

The Configure Kopete Dialog

Adding and Editing Accounts
Global Identity
Behavior
Appearance
Devices

Loading Plugins

5. Kopete's Protocols

AIM
ICQ
MSN
Yahoo
Jabber
Google Talk
Novell GroupWise
Gadu-Gadu
WinPopup
Other protocols

6. Kopete's Plugins

Alias
Auto Replace
Bookmarks
Connection Status
Contact Notes
Highlight
History
OTR
KopeteTeX
Motion Auto-Away
Now Listening
Statistics
Text Effect
Translator
Web Presence
Pipes

Contributing a plugin

7. Menu Entries

The Contact List Window's Menus

File Menu
Edit Menu
Settings Menu
Help Menu

The Chat Window's Menus

Chat Menu
Edit Menu
Format Menu
Tabs Menu
Tools Menu
Settings Menu
Help Menu

8. Frequently Asked Questions

9. Specialized Actions

10. Credits and Licenses

Current Development Team
Former Developers (Kopete Hall Of Fame)
Documentation

A. Installation

How to obtain Kopete
Required Libraries
Compilation and Installation

B. Kopete Chat Window Style Guide

Kopete Chat Window Style reference.

Reference guide.
Keywords reference

Kopete Chat Window Style Guideline

Support highlight
Consecutive message templates are required.
Use UTF-8 encoding.
Supply Contents/Info.plist for interopability with Adium
Supply buddy_icon.png
Support right-to-left languages with %messageDirection% keyword.

C. Kopete Pipes Plugin Implementation Guide

XML Output
XML Input
Acceptable Values

Introduction