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systems, and is still widely used. It is mainly designed for group (many-to-many) communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication.</para>

<para>The #kde channel is under Freenode, the <acronym>IRC</acronym> server, which provides an interactive environment for coordination and support of peer-directed projects, including -- and placing particular stress upon -- those relating to free software and open source projects, such as &kde;.</para>

<para>While &kopete; has a <acronym>IRC</acronym> plugin, and handles both channels and nicks well,

long time <acronym>IRC</acronym> users might prefer a client designed just

for that role, which is what <application>Konversation</application> is. It supports features such

as granting and taking op status, banning, easy nick changing, special

channel support for passwords and invites, and other things that the power

<acronym>IRC</acronym> users expect. It also is far better at handling

large channels such as #debian. If you have used another

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<application>Konversation</application>.</para>

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<para>Did it happen to you? You received an email and the first thing

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email. So you switch to your instant messaging client and/or IRC

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client and look if that person is online via MSN, Jabber or IRC. Well

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&kde; 3.3 has made that a lot easier. A step-by-step manual:</para>

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<para>The requirements are &kmail;, &kaddressbook; and &kopete;

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(<application>Konversation</application> should do as well). Make sure &kmail; is configured and

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fully functional for email, and Kopete is well configured for IRC,

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Jabber and/or MSN and/or any other protocol. </para>

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<para>If an email comes in from a contact you know, the first thing

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you have to do is to add it to your address book. This can be achieved

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by right clicking the address and choosing the entry <guibutton>Add to Address

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Book</guibutton>.</para>

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go to &kopete;. Go to

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<menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Add

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contact</guimenuitem> </menuchoice>. In the wizard, select the

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checkbox at the bottom called <guilabel>Use the KDE address book for

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this contact</guilabel> and choose <guibutton>Next</guibutton>. Select

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the right Address Book entry for that contact and press

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<guibutton>Next</guibutton>. Now you can set the display name and the

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group it belongs to for &kopete;. In the next screen select which

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protocol should be used if you have set up more then one protocol. You

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protocol, there will be some other questions, which you can answer as

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labeled <guilabel>Has address book entry</guilabel>. Press

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<guilabel>...</guilabel> and select the contact. Close these two

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goes away, offline, online, and so on. Now go to &kmail;, select another email and return to the original email (in other words: reload

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current state of your contact. </para>

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Instant Messenger will start a conversation with the contact.</para>

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