Konversation is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for the KDE (K Desktop Environment). It’s built on Qt and KDE Frameworks 5.
It offers all the features needed by a beginner as well as catering for an advanced IRC user’s requirements. It is a simple and easy-to-use software with support for SSL connections, strikeout, multi-channel joins, away/unaway messages, ignore list functionality, full Unicode support, the ability to auto-connect to a server, optional timestamps in chat windows, configurable background colors, and much more.
Konversation is designed to be a very user friendly client.
Features include:
- Standard IRC features.
- SSL server support.
- Bookmarking support.
- Easy to use graphical user interface with customizable quick buttons for frequently used commands.
- Automatic reconnect and rejoin.
- Visual and auditory notifications for a wide variety of events.
- Multiple servers and channels in one single window.
- DCC file transfer (send and receive).
- Multiple identities for different servers.
- Nickname completion.
- Nickname ignore list.
- Capture and save all URLs appearing in messages.
- Text decorations and colors.
- On-screen display for notifications.
- Automatic UTF-8 detection.
- Per channel encoding support.
- Theme support for nick icons.
- Capture and save all URLs appearing in messages.
- Highly configurable.
- Scripting.
- Support for KDE Web Shortcuts.
- Integration with KAddressBook, Kontact and the rest of KDE.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, PC-BSD, and Windows.
Website: konversation.kde.org
Support: The Konversation Handbook, Wiki
Developer: Dario Abatianni, Peter Simonsson, Eike Hein, Shintaro Matsuoka, Eli MacKenzie, Ismail Dönmez, John Tapsell, and many other contributors
License: GNU GPL v2
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