This page is to help everyone configure Googletalk on Kopete. Google
provides a lot of help on configuring googletalk on various clients
including Gaim
but not Kopete. These simple steps on configuring Kopete are from Frank
Spychalski's blog. His
instructions are quicker, except that they aren't accompanied with
screenshots. Hence I thought it would be useful to have a page
illustrate the instructions with screenshots. There's some more help
from the KDE
Wiki to connect kopete to
googletalk.
Before we start, you need to make sure that you have "kopete"
installed in addition with the tca-tls or qca-tls which provides the
necessary encryption for the jabber/googletalk connection. The stable
version of Kopete - 0.10.3
as of the creation (18-Feb-2006)
of this document does not support
voice. However, the unstable version - Alpha 12.1
claims to have experimental
support for voice for googletalk users.
For qca-tls, here are some possible sources to download them
All above links are for i386/x86 architecture users. If you use another
architecture, I suggest you get an appropriate binary package or
install from source (which is what I did.) Once you have qca-tls
installed, you can easily sail through the next steps as illustrated
below.
1. On the main Kopete screen, choose "Settings ->
Configure"
(Account
names from my messenger have been removed using The Gimp
for privacy reasons)
2. In the above configuration screen, just click on "New" (which is
highlighted in the screenshot)
3. Googletalk uses the "Jabber" protocol which you can choose in this
"Add Account" screen and then click "Next"
4. Select your username (username@gmail.com)
and then choose whether you want to store your password with remember password
or otherwise. When you're done with this, click on "Connection."
(My
username is betasam@gmail.comand
is used in the above screenshot.)
5. On this tab, just select the settings as shown above. Please do not
get confused by other HowTos.
(The
only change you can have is the Priority, but I suggest you leave the
default values.)
When you're done with this tab, just click on "OK".
6. This is the last screen, you can select "Connect now" to make sure
this is working or leave it for the next time you enter a desktop
session. You can comfortably go on and click "Finish" and you're done.
