Bug 109586

Summary:	A plugin to select servers and start game from kopete for multiplayer games (Quake, Enemy Territory)
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	Arpad Lukacs <mrprise>
Component:	New plugin wishes	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	Andreas.Schallenberg, antiNeo2000, correnos, wstephenson
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Arpad Lukacs 2005-07-25 10:23:48 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.2)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

There is a tool on one of the other OSs. 
http://www.xfire.com/

From the site:
"Xfire makes online gaming easy. 
See when your friends are online & what game they're playing 
See where they're playing and join them with one click 
See what games the friends of your friends are playing"

I would like to have something like that on Linux.
Maybe it would be nice if it will be compatible with Xfire.
There is any documents or tutorial on how to write a plugin for kopete?

Thanks!

Comment 1 Will Stephenson 2006-11-05 23:14:54 UTC

A kopete plugin integrating code from the kggz client for this http://www.ggzgamingzone.org/clients/kde/ would be easy to write.

Comment 2 Caffeine 2006-11-13 22:10:22 UTC

There also is a gaim-plugin with almost the full chatting functionality of xfire called gfire. 

http://gfire.sourceforge.net 

just for the sake of listing each linux source which adopted the protocol. A port for Kopete would be something very nice to see though.

Comment 3 R. J. 2007-02-19 12:33:06 UTC

What a bummer that this still hasn't been done.  I know of a lot of gamers, that because of Vista are planning to move to linux, but for them the drawback is that there is no xfire client for linux, and the gaim one just plain sux.  I think that having kopete log into xfire will bring in a lot of gamers to linux.

Comment 4 Jonathan Glines 2007-05-22 15:41:24 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 5 Pino Toscano 2007-05-26 14:26:48 UTC

*** Bug 145797 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Jonathan Glines 2007-05-30 15:34:24 UTC

I think we could have the plugin set up so that it launches the games on a separate display, since using alt+tab doesn't work as well in Linux as it does in Windows. This would also be good for people with multiple moniters, since they can run their games in a single moniter display.

The other thing I'm thinking about is how can Kopete be displayed in-game? Can composite do this without effecting performance?

Comment 7 AllenJB 2007-06-12 20:24:13 UTC

In reply to comment #6 :
There's an application that can do this first item already called xgame(-gtk) (Unfortunately the only URL I have for the project is http://xgame.tlhiv.com/ , which seems to be dead, but the source is still available on the Gentoo Mirrors:
http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/distfiles/xgame-1.7.1.tar.gz
http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/distfiles/xgame-gtk2-2.0.2.tar.gz
)

Comment 8 Pascal E. 2007-09-14 06:23:07 UTC

xgame is obsolete, try qgamex:
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=48532

Comment 9 Sander Devrieze 2008-01-16 23:34:19 UTC

This thread may be interesting: http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2008-January/017501.html

Comment 10 Chao Feng 2013-05-04 13:03:20 UTC

*** Bug 210381 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-18 18:26:44 UTC

Dear user, unfortunately Kopete is no longer maintained.

Please migrate to another solution, e.g. for Jabber a possibility is Kaidan, for Matrix a candidate is NeoChat.