Version: 0.7.1 (using KDE KDE 3.1.3) Installed from: SuSE RPMs Compiler: GCC 3.2 OS: Linux Hi, I'd love to see an option to embed Kopete in a Konqueror sidebar panel. Together with tabbed browsing, this would make Konqueror my ideal one-window web communications centre. Instead of having an extra Kopete window floating around, it would simply reside in my Konqi sidebar - I could switch sidebar panels whenever needed, I could make it as wide as I want it to be. Awesome! I'm not really sure how to implement this idea myself. A checkbox labeled "Register Konqueror sidebar panel" in the Kopete preferences ought to do it, as far as the user interface is concerned, I guess. As for the feasibility, I'm by no means a developer, but it seems to me like KDE does magical things with modularization already.
Would need kopete to be a kpart and a kopete wrapper application loading just the part so you still have a standalone application. I doubt this will be easy to do but it would be a nice idea. Could also allow us to embed into kontact if wanted. Changing version to unspecified as this applies to all versions until this wish is either implemented or denied. Setting priority to low because we should first make Kopete a stable communication-platform, IMHO the protocols need more attention than something like this (although I really like the KPart idea).
This will be verry easy per desing.
What about all the mainwindow and single-application specific options? Systemtray comes to my mind. Also position, size, show menubar and all that stuff. Also where's our menubar going to if it's a kpart? Well, maybe it's just me and my lack of knowledge about KParts, I'll leave this to somebody else to implement :))
arg, i forgot to think about the configure page. but other things are not difficult to do
I doesn't want to have Kopete in Konqueror BUT : I've found this bug here : http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/view/238 This article discuss of the new "Universal Sidebar kicker extension" (like Longhorn ? ) and I find this abstract VERY POWERFUL and want it (only one place to find all needed 'information' : a dream for me) ! I know it will take time to do it and I will patient but this Universal Sidebar must be noticed. I vote for this bug... to be implemented in kicker too !
Isn't it the solution : http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=10326
No it isn't, that's just a hack
*** Bug 53976 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
i thknk the Bug 42976 which has been marked as a duplicate of this bug is NOT a duplicate of this bug. It is older and about the fact that kopete cannot be set sticky to one edge of the screen, while this wants kopete as a sidebar plugin like the mediaplayer to konqueror!!
Bug 42976 is a duplicate because if this was resolved then Kopete would automatically be able to stick to the side of the desktop, because you could just embed it into the Universal Sidebar.
No, Bug 42976 is NOT a duplicate. I for one don't think "Universal Sidebar" when I think of sticky behaviour a la AIM under Windows. The main reason for my view is that the Universal Sidebar causes kicker to no longer be the entire length of the bottom of the screen (I have kicker set to 100% so it's the bottom window.) It causes it to act like QNX Photon's border bars.
I for one agree that they are two different bugs, although if this was made possible, it would be much simpler to actually implement the ICQ-style auto-hide.
would that work to set the 'window specific properties' to make it like a kicker applet, without titlebar with a hide/show feature ?
not really, at least not the way i'd like to use it: I'd use this as the only thing in the universal sidebar (alternatively it could be a kicker applet) that way: 1) it would be on all my screens 2) always be visible 3) wouldn't interfere with the maximizing of other windows: - other windows take up all remaining screen space with one click - if I want more screen estate (or less distraction), I'd just click the handle of the universal sidebar (and have the maximized windows on screen take up the extra space automatically) 1 and 2 are doable with window settings, 3 isn't (as far as I know), while it is 3 that makes such a setup workable (for me anyways). Maybey 'treat as a panel' should be a window option? (Where 'treat as a panel' means 3 as described above, with 'shade window' = 'klick handle')
*** Bug 75115 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 80909 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Kopete besides a webpage... this gives new opportunities in talking, and in learning! After setting up an own protocol (maybe based in jabber or irc) all people using this feature could speak about the subject of a certain webpage. You meet people that are interested in the same subject at the same moment, so simple "chat" could become a substansive talk. As kde help pages are html too, we could use this feature to link everybody trying to solve a certain problem so that they could help each other without delay in newsgroup-responses in an explorative situation where they don't feel being left alone! I'm just implementing this kind of system with a client-server system based on flash suitable for any online-tutorial as an application for so called "computer supported cooperative learning" (CSCL) or "just-in-time open learning" (JITOL): It's called the "communication enhanced tutorial system" (COMETS) and it is documented (only in german, yet) at http://projects.mi.fu-berlin.de/pi (new international documentation will be available soon at http://projects.mi.fu-berlin.de/comets Everyone who wants to learn more about this: Please contact me, I'm very interested in any suggestions, helps and clone-implementations because this system is the subject of my ph.d thesis. Marco.Rademacher@inf.fu-berlin.de
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.