The Rendezvous Plugin for Kopete provides support for Rendezvous communication over the local network with Kopete. Kopete is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client for Linux which allows you to connect to many different networks: AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Jabber just to name a few, and now you can use it to communicate between people on your local network using Rendezvous. The Rendezvous plugin for Kopete is compatible with iChat's local network messaging and the Rendezvous plugin for Proteus.

Download: You can download the source for the Rendezvous Plugin for Kopete CVS here:

Rendezvous for Kopete-CVS (as at 30th Sep 2003) -- Plugin version 1.0a

Instructions

• You will need the Zeroconf mDNS daemon version 0.1.2 or later to use this plugin.
• Extract the zmDNSd source tarball.
• ./configure && make
• ./src/zmdnsd -- Do this as your user, preferably not as root
• Now you will have zmDNSd running!
• Extract the Rendezvous-for-Kopete source tarball
• ./configure && make -- Note you may need to set --prefix appropriately according to where KDE / Kopete are installed
• As root: make install
• Restart Kopete!

Contacting me:

I can be contacted at u3952328[at]anu.edu.au

Features:

• Typing notifications
• Sending / displaying Buddy Images
• Displaying idle times of contacts
• Displaying custom status messages and setting custom idle/away messages. Currently custom available messages are not supported

Known Limitations:

• You turn up in your own contact list. Although trivial to fix, this is left for debugging purposes as this is still an early release
• Contacts are not deleted from your contact list when they disconnect, but instead set status to offline.
• File transfer is not supported
• Advertising length time the computer has been idle are not supported

Version History:

• Initial release

Released under the GPL License.

Trademarks
Rendezvous, and iChat are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.

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