IM client and Jabber

[timber]

I can't get the IM client that is installed with plasma 5 to connect to my work Jabber account. It just says connecting and never will. I used the same settings in Pidgin and it connects with no problem, but I'd much rather use the Plasma one if possible.

[Feathers McGraw]

Some of us were testing the plasma client recently and found that it is far from perfect - you might find this thread an interesting read!

[timber]

That's different from what I'm trying to do. We have a cisco jabber server on our intranet. In the advanced setting of the IM client I've put the server address and port. These same setting work fin in pidgin, but I can't connect using the KDE IM client.

Edit: I just installed Kopete and it works fine. I guess I will stay with that for now, but there is something wrong with the IM client with kubuntu 15.04 (Telepathy?).

[Feathers McGraw]

That's different from what I'm trying to do.

different but relevant, since we ended up discussing the merits of various clients and compatibility issues (read further!)

Edit: I just installed Kopete and it works fine. I guess I will stay with that for now, but there is something wrong with the IM client with kubuntu 15.04 (Telepathy?).

Kopete uses a library called iris, which is/was written by the psi developers. Pidgin uses libpurple, and KDE Telepathy uses the telepathy framework. Not sure if it's a library bug or a gui bug, but a good way to test could be finding another client that uses the telepathy framework and testing it. If I had to bet, I'd say it's a gui thing, since the gui has changed a lot recently!

If you're going to test one, perhaps try empathy?

[timber]

I'm not going to be able to test that. This is a work machine and I can't install all the the gnome requirements for empathy. I appreciate your help.