Re: Kaidan XMPP client
Hi John.
John Scott - 28.05.20, 23:34:46 CEST:
> (cc'ing packaging list in case anyone there knows or is working on it)
> On Thursday, May 28, 2020 7:15:24 AM EDT Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Fair enough. I was not able to use it as a XMPP client reliably.
>
> I am in exactly the same boat as you. Never got Kopete or KDE
> Telepathy to work with XMPP, granted KTp as packaged is pretty old
> ATM. There is a new XMPP-centric KDE program called Kaidan [1] that
> looks very nice.
Yeah, I am aware of it. It looks nice and modern, you can even install
it as a Flatpak.
However so far as to my knowledge it has no OMEMO encryption yet. That
is a no-go for me.
And while there are nice updated versions of PSI Plus in Debian
experimental, I again went back to dino-im… it is not great UI wise,
especially as it insists of opening images I receive by chat with
Imagemagick which has a GUI that IMHO should not be thrown at mere
mortals…¹ however, that may just be cause its GTK and such does not use
the standard applications set for KDE applications. But I did not find
where to set which application it shall use. I hope I do not have to
install GNOME Settings to change that. PSI Plus? Well it appears to have
a ton of features, but it does not work with one of my XMPP accounts
and… its a ton of complexity. I don't really understand this software.
Kopete and especially KDE Telepathy are quite nice approaches. It is a
pity that those seem to be abandoned. But yeah, it may make sense to
have something that does not try to support every chat protocol in
existence. As far as I see about what currently matters, support IRC,
XMPP and Matrix… and be done with it. Especially skip all the
proprietary platforms like ICQ – is thing still a thing? – and AOL and
what not.
[1] On command line it can be really handy, but please leave me alone
with that GUI.
Thanks,
--
Martin
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