The Kopete Handbook
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The Kopete Handbook

Will Stephenson

Matt Rogers

Michaël Larouche

Revision 0.12 (2006-12-15)

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

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
Protocols
AIM
ICQ
MSN
Yahoo
Jabber
Google Talk
Novell GroupWise
Gadu-Gadu
WinPopup
Other protocols
6. Kopete's Plugins
Plugins
Alias
Auto Replace
Bookmarks
Connection Status
Contact Notes
Cryptography
Highlight
History
KopeteTeX
Motion Auto-Away
Now Listening
Statistics
Text Effect
Translator
Web Presence
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.
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