Kopete is een instant messaging-programma voor de KDE-omgeving op Linux en biedt ondersteuning voor een aantal verschillende IM-netwerken. Hierdoor is het mogelijk om met verschillende gebruikers van deze netwerken vanuit het zelfde programma contacten te onderhouden. Ondersteuning voor de netwerken van AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, Meanwhile, SMS en Skype is aanwezig. De ontwikkelaars hebben de eerste alphaversie vrijgegeven van Kopete 0.12 met de volgende aankondiging:
The Kopete team is proud to announce the release of Kopete 0.12 Alpha 1 which is the first prerelease from the 0.12 series.
New Features for 0.12:
- Chat window: Adium style chat window themes
Kopete has removed support for the old XSL based chat window themes and now supports the same chat window themes that the Mac OS X client Adium uses. A few themes will be included in Kopete and there are many more available for download at AdiumXtras
- Yahoo: New Protocol Implementation
The next version of Kopete will feature a new Yahoo! protocol backend based on the Task architecture that is in use in the OSCAR (AIM/ICQ), Groupwise, and Jabber.
- Jabber: Experimental support for Jingle voice chats
Kopete now features experimental support for Google Talk voice chats. Please keep in mind that support for this feature of the Jabber protocol is completely experimental and is something that the user will have to use at his/her own risk.
- Support for Offline Messages
- Support for Jabber Transports
- AIM: Support for AIM Chat Rooms