Configuring KDE’s Kopete for Google Talk

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Now that Google Talk is live and is a Jabber service the next question is – how do I connect to it using the KDE Instant Messaging client Kopete ?

It’s dead easy – it’s just another Jabber server with the only restriction that you *must* connect to it via SSL.

So, what you need to do is:

  • Go to the Settings -> Configure Kopete menu option;
  • Start the new account wizard with the New button there;
  • Click Next at the welcome screen to start creating a new account;
  • Select Jabber as your account type and press Next;
  • Enter your Google Mail email address as your Jabber ID;
  • Click on the Connection tab at the top;
  • Tick the Use Protocol Encryption (SSL) option;
  • Tick the Override the default server information option;
  • Enter talk.google.com as your server;
  • If you are behind a restrictive firewall you can set the port number to 443 (normally used for secure websites)
  • You should now have a screen that looks like the image at the end of this article.

At that point you should be ready to hit Next to create the Google Talk Jabber account in Kopete!

Kopete configured for Google Talk

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8 thoughts on “Configuring KDE’s Kopete for Google Talk”

  3. thanks jaya..for that information..

    I got tired to figure out why my kopete was not getting connected using port no. 5223. Used 443, as firewall was blockign the same.

    thanks..

  5. Good to know my comment was useful 🙂

    Anyone tried using voice chat using these settings? I could not get it work on Kopete. Tried using Tapioca, but it doesn’t work within firewall.

  6. Not a problem Jaya!

    As for voice – my version of Kopete here (using the latest KDE 3.5.6 packages from Kubuntu) doesn’t support that.. 🙁

    I know it’s supposed to be possible, but haven’t got there yet!

  7. Mine is still 3.5.5 and Kopete-0.12.3

    I read somewhere that, you may need to compile Kopete from source
    enabling jingle option to get voice support. I did not try that yet.

    Jaya

  8. > Mine is still 3.5.5 and Kopete-0.12.3

    Aha…

    > I read somewhere that, if you may need to compile Kopete from source
    > enabling jingle option to get voice support. I did not try that yet.

    Yup, that’s right. I think at one point there was a package that included
    Jingle support but it crashed when I tried it out.

    There was actually a suggestion for the Google Summer of Code this year to
    improve Jingle integration    , but I don’t think it got up.. 🙁

    So I don’t think it’s enabled in the default builds of Kopete.

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