Kopete SILC

What is it?

Kopete SILC is a protocol plugin for Kopete, the KDE Instant Messenger. If you ever cursed that you cannot join the SILC Network using Kopete this can help you. It will add SILC support to Kopete.

The plugin is based on libsilc which is part of the SILC Toolkit mentioned above. The library was initially written by Pekka Riikonen and is still maintained by him.

Screenshots

Features include

Channels can be joined or added to the contact list.
One-to-one chats can be initiated by clicking members participating in group chats.
Password protected channels are supported.
User invitation is handy through drag-and-drop functionality.
Signature verification and public key handling are fully supported.
File transfesr to other buddies is possible, including graphical progress information and automatic detection of NAT'ed workstations.
guided channel configuration is partially available, this is, mainly topic setting and some boolean options
MIME support is fully implemented. So it is possible to send files to channels.
Attributes can distribute your mood, your location on earth or the medium you want to be contacted through.

News

12/19/10	Kopete SILC project has moved to Gitorious. See here.
04/05/09	Version 0.5 of kopete_silc is released. It depends on KDE-4.2
12/26/07	Version 0.4 of kopete_silc is released. It depends on libsilc-1.1 and KDE-3.5 (bugfix release)
05/28/07	Version 0.3 of kopete_silc is released. It does depend on libsilc-1.1 and KDE-3.5
05/24/07	Version 0.2 of kopete_silc is released. It is working with libsilc-1.0 and KDE-3.5

Known problems

guided channel configuration isn't full fledged, especially crypto stuff cannot be configured

Download and installation

The preferred way to install this plugin is by installing a package from your distribution vendor.

Another way is downloading the plugin and building it from the sources.

Getting the Tarball

The Tarballs are a bit outdated, better fetch the sources from the Git repository at Gitorious and start from there.

Getting from git Repository

You can get the development version (for KDE 4 and Silc Toolkit 1.1) of the plugin from the git repository using

git clone http://gitorious.com/kopete_silc

After this run these commands:

cmake .
make

That will compile the plugin for you. Now, you need to install it. Run 'make install' as user root. You're now set. Log out and back in. Afterwards Kopete should find the plugin and allow you to do the configuration.

Debian Package

The plugin is finally shipped with the Debian distribution (however not as a part of lenny). The package is named kopete-silc-plugin.

Ubuntu Package

The plugin is not part of the official Ubuntu distribution, but you can find packages for latest versions below files/.

Authors

Stefan Siegl (stesie)
Martin Albrecht (malb)
Christian Dietrich (stettberger)
Conrad Hoffmann (conrausch)

Status

No known crashes at the moment. However, it is rather new and some features are still missing.

Feature Freeze:

out of sight.