8 Oct
2021
8 Oct
'21
7:23 p.m.
On Friday 08 October 2021 12:03:58 Hunter Ellett via tde-users wrote:
I am (or rather, was) a big fan of Kopete, back in the KDE3 days of yore. TDE,
sadly, has not got kopete-trinity quite ready to be torified. I've tried, but
it always crashes; I do keep hoping that it will eventually be updated,
upgraded, reinvented, whatever.
In the meanwhile, might I suggest psi-plus? I have been using it with few
issues for at least a couple years now. I can get it to use my TDE colors,
too, with a bit of finessing and tweaking (but that's another thread, and we
already discussed it earlier under tqt3 or something like that). I've also
downloaded about a gazillion other Linux chat clients to try out, but haven't
got to them yet because psi-plus is really good.
https://psi-plus.com/
It's also cross-platform, which is good if you are ever forced to use a
non-Linux machine. (Say, when the spooks are torturing you by forcing you to
listen to the complete recorded works of The Shaggs, or maybe something even
worse.) Well, it works for me, for the moment.
Bill
On October 8, 2021 1:34:11 PM CDT, Steven D'Aprano
<steve(a)pearwood.info>
wrote:
If people want
to experiment with chat, you could check out Libra.Chat:
https://libera.chat/
I think there's already #trinity-desktop on Libera Chat.
I also want to mention that I suggested Matrix in the first place because
it supports full end to end encryption. I agree with Nik and others that
encryption is vital these days so I find what supports it. I use the
halogen.city homeserver over matrix.org's as an added guard because the
main group behind Matrix is shady as others have said before, but the
protocol itself is FOSS. Overall, Matrix is like a newer clone of Jabber (I
prefer the old name "Jabber" over XMPP) and is growing in popularity via
Element as a client.
It doesn't bring anything new to the table that Jabber already has so maybe
its better, but I find Matrix more user-friendly.
I also like that Kopete can be used with Jabber but the OTR encryption
plugin isn't readily available for all distros or FreeBSD. Perhaps we can
have an encrypted Jabber room for TDE that is easily accessible in Kopete.