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Yes, the new IM Service from Google [http://talk.google.com Google Talk] works with Kopete


==Add a new Jabber account.==
==Adding an account==
Enter your complete Google Mail address and corresponding password. If you could not connect with your [email protected] Address, try [email protected].


[[Image:Kopete-google-talk-1.png|center|thumbnail|509px|Basic Setup Page]]
In order to configure your [http://talk.google.com Google Talk] account in Kopete, follow this steps.


===Basic Setup page of Jabber add account dialog===
First you will need to add a Jabber account: <menuchoice>Settings -> Configure... -> Accounts</menuchoice>. There, choose an identity and press "Add Account..." in the right column. A service list will be displayed, and you have to choose "Jabber", and then press "Next".
go to the Connection page of the dialog.


check &quot;Use protocol encryption (SSL)&quot; checkbox
In the first tab you have to enter your complete Google Talk address and password.


check &quot;Allow plain-text password authentication&quot; checkbox
[[Image:Kopete-google-talk-1.png|center|thumbnail|480px|Basic Setup tab.]]


check &quot;override default server information&quot; checkbox
Then go to the Connection tab, and check "Use protocol encryption (SSL)", "Allow plain-text password authentication" and "Override default server information" checkboxes. Then set server to "talk.google.com" and port to "5223". If you are '''behind a firewall''' and can't connect to the 5223 port you can use the 443 port (standard SSL port).


and set server to &quot;talk.google.com&quot; port 5223 (''not 5222 as stated on [http://www.google.com/talk/developer.html their web site'']).
[[Image:Kopete-google-talk-2.png|center|thumbnail|480px|Connection tab.]]


If you are '''behind a firewall''' and can&#039;t connect to the 5223 port you can use the 443 port (standard SSL port).
If you want to enable voice chat, go to the Google Talk tab and check the checkbox you'll find.
[[Image:Kopete-google-talk-2.png|center|thumbnail|509px|Connection page of Jabber add account dialog&]]
 
[[Image:Kopete-google-talk-3.png|center|thumbnail|480px|Google Talk tab.]]
 
Read more about Kopete Google Talk voice chat support [[Kopete Jabber Jingle|here]].


You may need to restart Kopete to get the connection to work if you are editing an existing account.
You may need to restart Kopete to get the connection to work if you are editing an existing account.


Kopete Jabber uses a library called QCA for encrypted connections as used by jabber.  Kopete has an internal copy of this library but your distribution may have separated it out.  If so, make sure you have QCAinstalled.  This may be called &quot;libqca1-tls&quot;.   
==QCA==
 
Kopete Jabber uses a library called QCA for encrypted connections as used by Jabber.  Kopete has an internal copy of this library but your distribution may have separated it out.  If so, make sure you have QCA installed.  This may be called "libqca1-tls".   


Information on QCA for various distributions:
Information on QCA for various distributions:
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The qca-tls plugin can also be compiled from source code which can be obtained [http://delta.affinix.com/qca/ here].  The required file is qca-tls-1.0.tar.bz2 (qca-1.0.tar.bz2 is not the plugin which Kopete needs but the library).
The qca-tls plugin can also be compiled from source code which can be obtained [http://delta.affinix.com/qca/ here].  The required file is qca-tls-1.0.tar.bz2 (qca-1.0.tar.bz2 is not the plugin which Kopete needs but the library).
Unfortunately talking to windows google talk clients from kopete seems to make them disconnect.  It is a problem with the google client failing to properly parse part of the message sent by kopete (thetyping notification).
That&#039;s because Kopete 0.10 sends Typing notification, even if it hasn&#039;t been requested.
This is fixed in Kopete 0.11 which is released with KDE 3.5. The Google Talk problem seems to be fixed in Google Talk Client 1.0.0.68.
Support for voice chat has started in the developpement branch. See the page [[Kopete_Jabber_Jingle|Jabber Jingle]]
If you get the following error:
The certificate of server gmail.com could not be validated for account &lt;kopeteuser&gt;@gmail.com: TheCertificate Authority is invalid.
click &quot;Continue&quot;.
Gtalk works great with kopete.




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Revision as of 00:24, 8 September 2010

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Adding an account

In order to configure your Google Talk account in Kopete, follow this steps.

First you will need to add a Jabber account: Settings -> Configure... -> Accounts. There, choose an identity and press "Add Account..." in the right column. A service list will be displayed, and you have to choose "Jabber", and then press "Next".

In the first tab you have to enter your complete Google Talk address and password.

Basic Setup tab.

Then go to the Connection tab, and check "Use protocol encryption (SSL)", "Allow plain-text password authentication" and "Override default server information" checkboxes. Then set server to "talk.google.com" and port to "5223". If you are behind a firewall and can't connect to the 5223 port you can use the 443 port (standard SSL port).

Connection tab.

If you want to enable voice chat, go to the Google Talk tab and check the checkbox you'll find.

Google Talk tab.

Read more about Kopete Google Talk voice chat support here.

You may need to restart Kopete to get the connection to work if you are editing an existing account.

QCA

Kopete Jabber uses a library called QCA for encrypted connections as used by Jabber. Kopete has an internal copy of this library but your distribution may have separated it out. If so, make sure you have QCA installed. This may be called "libqca1-tls".

Information on QCA for various distributions:

  • SUSE: the package is called "qca" but is installed by default along with Kopete.
  • Debian: the package is called "qca-tls". You may also need the libqca2-plugin-ossl package.
  • Fedora Core 4: the package is called "qca-tls" and is available via yum from the Fedora Extras repository.
  • Gentoo: the package is called "app-crypt/qca-tls" for KDE 3.5, and "app-crypt/qca-ossl" for KDE 4.0.
  • Mandriva: just install "libqca1-tls"
  • Slackware: install qca-* packages from www.linuxpackages.net and then run ldconf as root.
  • Kubuntu: the package is called "qca-tls" and is installed by default with Kubuntu 7.10, but requires manual installation with Kubuntu 8.04.

The qca-tls plugin can also be compiled from source code which can be obtained here. The required file is qca-tls-1.0.tar.bz2 (qca-1.0.tar.bz2 is not the plugin which Kopete needs but the library).

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