Konversation

Conversation is a free graphical IRC client based on the KDE platform.

Functions

Conversation allows multiple simultaneous connections to servers (optionally with SSL and / or IPv6). In addition, conversation supports Blowfish encryption. The program can automatically detect if used in a chat UTF -8 encoding, and supports them completely. It can manage multiple identities, so that you possibly can for different servers use different settings.

Other features include an On Screen Display, bookmarks for servers and channels and DCC connections.

Conversation based on kdebase and thus optimally integrated into the KDE interface. Users who work a lot with the command line and much chat, console can run in a tab of this IRC clients. Chat partner can be linked to entries in KAddressbook. Thus, the global fixed in KDE for a contact image is then displayed in conversation. KDE again then displays at various locations, whether the contact in question is available in the chat currently, for example, if an email is displayed by him with KMail.

Through the use of KDE Input / Output ( KIO ) files can be sent to a chat partner through DCC. With the command

About Shell scripts and D-Bus allows the functionality of conversation extend and integrate program functions in automated processes. For example, it would be possible to automatically send a message to a particular channel with the help of such a script, when an alarm in the calendar management KOrganizer occurrence. However, a scripting functionality such as in irssi is not yet possible.