Konversation is an
Internet Relay Chat
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for group communication in discussion forums, called '' channels'', but also allows one-on-one communication via private messages as well as chat an ...
(IRC)
client
Client(s) or The Client may refer to:
* Client (business)
* Client (computing), hardware or software that accesses a remote service on another computer
* Customer or client, a recipient of goods or services in return for monetary or other valuabl ...
built on the
KDE
KDE is an international free software community that develops free and open-source software. As a central development hub, it provides tools and resources that allow collaborative work on this kind of software. Well-known products include the ...
Platform and is
free software
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released under the terms of the
GNU GPL-2.0-or-later. Konversation is currently maintained in the KDE
Extragear
The KDE Gear (also known as the KDE Applications Bundle or KDE Applications) is a set of applications and supporting libraries that are developed by the KDE community, primarily used on Linux-based operating systems but mostly multiplatform, and ...
Network module, which means that it has its own release cycle which is independent from the main KDE applications. It is the default IRC client in many prominent
Linux distributions, such as
openSUSE
openSUSE () is a free and open source RPM-based Linux distribution developed by the openSUSE project.
The initial release of the community project was a beta version of SUSE Linux 10.0.
Additionally the project creates a variety of tools, s ...
, the KDE spin of
Fedora, and
Kubuntu.
Features
Konversation supports
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv ...
connections, offers
SSL server support,
and supports
Blowfish
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encryption. It also supports identity management with multiple server connections using separate identities for different servers
and can display multiple servers and channels in one window.
Konversation features automatic
UTF-8
UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from ''Unicode'' (or ''Universal Coded Character Set'') ''Transformation Format 8-bit''.
UTF-8 is capable of ...
detection
and can support different encodings in different channels.
It also features an optional
on-screen display
An on-screen display (OSD) is an image superimposed on a screen picture, commonly used by modern television sets, VCRs, and DVD players to display information such as volume, channel, and time.
History
In the past, most adjustments on TV sets ...
(OSD) for message notifications
and can save
bookmarks for channels and servers. Konversation supports colors, text decorations, and themable nicklist icons.
Konversation is also scriptable using
shell scripts
via
D-BUS
In computing, D-Bus (short for "Desktop Bus")
is a message-oriented middleware mechanism that allows communication between multiple processes running concurrently on the same machine. D-Bus was developed as part of the freedesktop.org project, ...
and includes support for aliases and an action system for automatic events. It also identifies different users in the conversation window by choosing a random color for each user.
See also
*
Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients
The following tables compare general and technical information between a number of notable IRC client programs which have been discussed in independent, reliable prior published sources.
General
Basic general information about the notablecl ...
References
External links
*
Extragear
Free Internet Relay Chat clients
Instant messaging clients that use Qt
Internet Relay Chat clients
KDE Applications
MacOS Internet software
Windows Internet software
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