Bug 182450

Summary: Chat with invisible/offline user?
Product: [Unmaintained] kopete Reporter: Mathew Hennessy <kdebugs>
Component: generalAssignee: Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: frank
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
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Description Mathew Hennessy 2009-01-30 16:35:34 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

In Pidgin, there's an option to start a new chat (Buddies -> New Instant Message) that doesn't rely on clicking on a buddy list entry.  This is extremely good for chatting with invisible users.  Please add a New Instant Message/New Chat option to the File menu that will behave like Pidgin does.
Comment 1 Frank Niethardt 2009-11-16 10:02:42 UTC 
To start with a chat with an invisible or offline user, you could switch to "Show all" and select the user.

But I second that this option would be useful, especially if you want to have a short conversation with someone, you don't want to add to your contact list.
Comment 2 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-18 18:26:47 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Dear user, unfortunately Kopete is no longer maintained.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.