konversation - user friendly IRC client for KDE

Konversation is client for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol.

IRC is a great way to meet friends on the net, make new acquaintances and lose yourself in talk about your favorite subject.

Konversation is under active development and is currently in beta.

All KDE and Qt programs accept a some common command-line options.

Generic options:

--help

Show help about options

--help-qt

Show Qt specific options

--help-kde

Show KDE specific options

--help-all

Show all options

--author

Show author information

-v, --version

Show version information

--license

Show license information

--

Indicates end of options

Options

--server {server}

Server to connect

--port {port}

Port to use (default: 6667)

--channel {channel}

Channel to join after connection

--nick {nickname}

Nickname to use

--password {password}

Password for connection

--ssl

Use SSL for connection (default: false)

Konversation looks for scripts in /usr/share/apps/konversation/scripts and in ~/.kde/share/apps/konversation/scripts. To execute a script, use the exec command: /exec {scriptname} [arguments]

For example:

/exec gauge 75

~/.kde/share/config/konversationrc

Main configuration

~/.kde/share/config/konversation.eventsrc

Notification settings

~/.kde/share/apps/konversation/logs

Directory containing channel log files

The Konversation Handbook is an excellent resource for further reading. It can be found under the Help menu in Konversation.

The following manual pages may also be of interest: konversationircprotocolhandler(1), dcop(1)

This manual page was written by Nathaniel W. Turner <nate@houseofnate.net> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

Nathaniel W Turner.