No IRC in Kopete for KDE 4.1?

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/8/28 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>> And AMSN as a plugin, and run the native windows Yahoo IM client in
>> wine as a plugin, and something similar for ICQ I suppose?
>
> Of course it shouldn't be running windows apps as plugins.

We both know that. I was just giving an extreme example to make a point.

>> The 'one thing' that Kopete does is chat- and it does it well. It
>> supports multiple protocols.
>
> But there _is_ a KDE IRC client, and there _isn't_ - and isn't likely to
> be - further development of the IRC client in kopete.  So why not devote
> some time to using an appropriate KDE component inside Kopete, so that it
> then requires minimal future maintenance from the Kopete team?

How about looking at it the other way? There already _is_ a KDE chat
client that supports multiple protocols. Why develop a separate app
just for IRC? Why shouldn't the Konversation team devote their time to
IRC support in Kopete? So much of the Kopete / Konversation code is
likely duplicate anyway. If there will be a separate IRC client, why
not a separate Jabber client, a separate ICQ client, a separate Yahoo
client, a separate MSN client, and a separate AIM client?

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