Kopete

Kopete is a free software application for flexible instant messaging and extensible multi-protocol system, it can communicate with protocols like ICQ, AIM, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Jabber/XMPP, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger. Kopete is part of the KDE project and with excellent integration with this graphical environment.

Protocols

Kopete allows users to connect to the following protocols:

• AOL Instant Messenger
• Bonjour
• Facebook ([1])
• Gadu-Gadu
• ICQ
• XMPP with Jingle for voice
• Lotus Sametime via the Meanwhile plugin
• Novell GroupWise
• QQ
• SMS
• Winpopup
• Windows Live Messenger
• Yahoo! Messenger

Features

• Messages in a window, with tabs to easily change conversations
• Capacity to use multiple service accounts
• Alias nicknames for contacts
• Contact group
• Personalized notifications for contacts
• Integration with KAddressBook and KMail
• Record of talks
• Personalized Emocons
• Personalized notifications, including pop-ups and sounds
• MSN and Yahoo! webcam support
• Orthographic corrector

Release history

• 26 December 2001 - Chilean Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett starts working on an ICQ clone for KDE after a change in the ICQ protocol was produced, which unused existing customers until then.
  • A few weeks later other ICQ and Duncan clients are updated to redraft their efforts towards a multiprotocol plugin-based messenger, using Noatun's architecture as a basis.
  • Nick Betcher joins Duncan in his effort, writes the first extensions of AIM and ICQ. Duncan continues to work in the central library and a basic MSN plugin.
• 3 March 2002 - Kopete 0.2
• April 5, 2002 - Kopete 0.3, new expansion for the IRC network by Nick Betcher and many improvements.
• June 1, 2002 - Kopete 0.4, new Jabber/XMPP expansion by Daniel Stone.
  • Martjin Klingens and Ryan Cumming join the team reorganizing Kopete to greatly facilitate their maintenance.
  • 16 June 2002 - Kopete 0.4.2
• 30 September 2002 - Kopete 0.5
  • Oliver Goffart joins the team and next to Martjin Klingens starts completing an add-on or plugin for MSN.
• 9 February 2003 - Kopete 0.6
• August 8, 2003 - Kopete 0.7, major improvements.
  • 11 August 2003 - Kopete 0.7.1
  • September 9, 2003 - Kopete 0.7.2, accepts MSN Messenger Protocol 9.
  • September 10, 2003 - Kopete 0.7.3, accepts new Yahoo! protocol! Messenger.
• September 2, 2004 - Kopete 0.8, adapted to the latest versions of the KDE desktop.
  • 4 September 2004 - Kopete 0.8.2
  • 10 July 2004 - Kopete 0.8.4
• 23 May 2005- Kopete 0.10.1 and Kopete 0.9.3 patched for MSN
  • 8 August 2005 - Kopete 0.10.3 is released.
  • 13 October 2005 - Kopete 0.10.4 is launched and included in KDE 3.4.3
  • November 29, 2005 - Kopete 0.11, brings as novelty the webcam support for the MSN protocol.
  • 1 June 2006 - Kopete 0.12, launched and included in KDE 3.5.3.
  • July 13, 2006 - Kopete 0.12.1, solves problems with the ICQ protocol and fixes other failures.
  • August 11, 2006 - Kopete 0.12.2, solves more problems with the ICQ protocol and solves various errors.
  • 11 October 2006 - Kopete 0.12.3 is released
  • January 23, 2007 - Kopete 0.12.4 is released, included in KDE 3.5.6. Improved webcam support in MSN.

Kopete 0.12.7 is released bundled with KDE 3.5.8

• • 11 January 2008 - Kopete 0.50.0 is launched in KDE 4.0.0