Re: Hangouts, XMPP and KDE on-line accounts

Op donderdag 22 november 2018 14:14:51 CET schreef Vojtěch Zeisek:
> Hi,
> I wonder which options do we have for instant messaging (KDE, TW). I'd
> prefer KDE application. I need Google Hangouts (more accounts on custom
> domains), I can live without calling. If the application would work for
> XMPP/Jabber, the better. If also for IRC, the best.
> On-line accounts in KDE control center allow me to add Google account and it
> can access Drive and YouTube. Nothing more. Using gdrive:/ in Dolphin lists
> accounts, but accessing them fails with "unknown error". Well, no Hangouts
> available here. Do I miss some required package? KDE on-line accounts allow
> me to add Google, ownCloud or Twitter. Nothing else.
> I looked at https://en.opensuse.org/KDE_Telepathy but telepathy-kde doesn't
> exist anymore (https://software.opensuse.org/search doesn't find it). Wasn't
> Telepathy responsible for the chatting part of KDE on-line accounts? Do we
> have anything working based on Telepathy (Empathy?)?
> I tried Kopete. It doesn't seem to be very maintained either (in KDE3 and 4
> it used to be my favorite chatting application) and since the antispam
> module is missing, bots are very annoying there. Hangouts doesn't work
> there and the application is frequently crashing (when editing account
> settings, removing contacts, etc). Is it worth of reporting?
> I tried Pidgin, but Hangouts didn't work for me and its privacy/antispam
> settings doesn't work very well.
> Finally I tried YakYak https://github.com/yakyak/yakyak It seems to be
> working well, but it can use only one Google Hangouts account (I need two)
> and nothing else.
> So do we have among our packages anything reliably working with Google
> Hangouts? I don't prefer to use it through web browser as I use KMail (so no
> webmail) and generally rather desktop clients. Full integration into KDE
> would also be nice, but I need at least anything working...
> V.

Franz is capable of doing quite a lot of what you describe, the number of 
services it can handle has significantly grown over the year that I've been 
using it. 

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Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht
openSUSE Board Member
openSUSE Forums Team


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