Re: Hangouts, XMPP and KDE on-line accounts

On 22/11/2018 14.14, Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
> 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...

I use konversation, the KDE IRC client together with
https://github.com/mtomwing/pickups for the Hangouts connection and 
https://www.bitlbee.org/ for some other services. I have hopes on 
http://matrix.org/ providing even better and more integrations in the 
future.
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/network:messaging:matrix
provides the development project for server and client packages. E.g.
matrix-quaternion is a Qt client which should at least integrate 
somewhat into a plasma session.
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