Version: 0.9.1 (using KDE 3.3.1, Gentoo) Compiler: gcc version 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.9 Apple seems to supply source code to make your computer RendezVous compliant, or something. I don't know if kopete could support that, send your identity to the rendezvous LAN and allow the client part to receive/sent message that'd be great.
http://developer.apple.com/macosx/rendezvous/
use new kdnssd lib http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/cvs-api/dnssd/html/index.html
*** Bug 95422 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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this gonna be so much of a killer features ! sad it may not make it to 3.4
Two possibilities of IM Protocol for LAN chatting via Bonjour/Rendezvous -Jabber if client-to-client conversion is possible(i.e requiring no server) -Developping a all-new specific Kopete LAN chatting protocol but it's a bad idea IMHO, require a lot of design and it's duplication. Both solutions require additional Windows and Mac OS X client to support it to a extend (not everyone is using UNIX desktop, and even less with KDE compiled with dnssd support)
I think we should wait for Tiger. They announced further support for zeroconf (we should refer to it now by this name) and complete integration of Jabber into iChat. So, solution No.1 of the previous poster sounds all the more interesting. Again, I think we should look at Tiger and see how we can improve upon that.
Tiger is released... for more than a month now. iChat does not have that many changes, well, RendezVous has been renamed to Bonjour. everything else is not really related to this bug. any solutions that require work on Windows and OS-X clients makes no sens. first step is to be able to see OS-X computers with iChat and Bonjour enabled. broadcast our presence and being able to chat. I'm not to worried about Windows, somebody will a client for it.
You should be able to "see" the MacOS X computers by using dnssd:/
1) it is zeroconf:/ since kde 3.4 beta 2) you will see MacOSX machines only if they export some services usable for KDE (for example web server, ftp server, ssh server, etc.)
You can have more information on the protocol used by ichat on this web page : http://xurble.org/weblog/2005/08/bonjour-ichats-use-of-xmpp-jabber.html or by looking the gaim plugin source , on http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gaim/gaim/src/protocols/bonjour/
There's a limited functionality kopete plugin available: http://zmdns.sourceforge.net/rendezvous/index.html
That Kopete plugin is dated from 2003. Sure it doesn't compile with recent Kopete (0.11 and 0.12)
any plan to have that include in KDE4 or something?
Since telepathy support is planned ( http://www.tehbisnatch.org/2006/11/11/its-like-telepathy/ ), maybe someone could try to use telepathy-salut with it ?
Would still be nice...
there is a bonjour plugin now in extragear for KDE 4.1. It will move to kdenetwork for KDE 4.2