Kopete's Plugins
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Kopete offers plugins that provide functions that aren't essential for messaging, but are useful for some people.
Alias lets you define your own commands, eg /hello, in Kopete that run scripts and output the result in the chat window. If you know how the alias Unix command works, this is just the same
Auto Replace allows you to correct frequently misspelled words or save typing certain words using abbreviations.
The Bookmarks plugin creates bookmarks in your KDE bookmarks list from URLs that are received in IM messages.
Connection Status is useful for modem users or others who don't have a permanent Internet connection. It watches for an active Internet connection and sets your accounts online when it detects you have dialed up.
Highlight works a little like email filters, in that it allows you to make things happen in response to particular messages. As well as highlighting the text, you can play sounds.
The History plugin, when activated, records conversations using any IM system and allows you to view old conversations later. A item appears in each Metacontact's context menu so you can view the message history for that metacontact.
The following item is added to the Contact List's menus:
(Enabled when a contact is selected) This displays the History browser for the selected contact.
The following items are added to the Chat window's menus:
This enables you to view the next oldest set of messages from the History in the Chat window.
This shows the next newest set of messages from the History in the Chat window.
This shows the most recent set of messages from the History in the Chat window.
KopeteTeX allows scientists and mathematicians to hold conversations using the LaTeX markup language. Expressions entered within $$ are rendered as a graphic in the chatwindow, and can be cut and pasted as the original Latex. To use this plugin you must have LaTeX installed
In conjunction with a webcam and the Video4Linux package, this lets you detect when you're no longer at your computer and have Kopete automatically become Away.
With the Now Listening plugin, let people you're chatting with know what you're listening to, by typing /media in a chat, or with -> in the Chat window.
This plugin uses a database to gather information about your contacts' activity patterns. You can use this to see when a contact is usually online, for example.
Text Effect applies funny effects to your messages before sending them, like coloring them or changing the case of the words. Just don't forget you have activated it - we've had bug reports from forgetful Text Effect users!
The Translator plugin lets you define a preferred language for each Metacontact, and then translates messages to or from them using web based translation services such as Google™ and Babelfish™. Set your own preferred language in the Configure Plugins dialog. Each contact's preferred language can be set on its context menu.
The following item is added to the Chat window's menus:
If you did not turn on automatic translation, this translates the current chat.
Web Presence allows you to publicize your IM presence on the Web. Give it the path to a file on an FTP server (for example), and it will upload a short piece of HTML to that file, which you can include in your homepage. KDE's network transparency makes this simple. Useful for bloggers to make friends with, or you could use it to use IM in your business.
Example: sftp://username@somehost.org/path/to/homes/user/im.html uses the SFTP protocol to upload your presence directly onto the webserver.
See the KIO manuals for tips on specific network protocols.
