Chat Clients
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Chat Clients

Chatting with friends and family is one of the more popular uses of the Internet. Kubuntu provides you with the necessary applications in order to do so. There are two main chat clients in Kubuntu; Kopete for all of your instant messaging needs and Quassel for chatting on IRC (Internet Relay Chat).

Kopete

Kickoff Application Launcher->Applications->Internet->Instant Messager

Kopete is the KDE instant messaging (IM) client. It provides you all of the functionality similar to that of other popular IM clients today. With Kopete you can setup accounts for:

  • AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)

  • Gadu-Gadu

  • GroupWise

  • ICQ

  • IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

  • Jabber

  • Meanwhile

  • MSN Messenger

  • Yahoo

More help is available in the Kopete Handbook.

Quassel

Kickoff Application Launcher->Applications->Internet->IRC Client (Quassel IRC)

Quassel is a KDE IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client for KDE. It provides you a lot of the functionality similar to that of other popular IRC clients. Quassel has gone through a lot of changes to improve the usability of the application. Quassel includes tabbed browsing and notification of messages and other events.

More help is available in the Quassel Handbook.

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