On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:21 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol@kde.org> wrote:

Getting more pragmatic, I think the clear distinction between Kopete
and KTp is that Kopete is a KDE application by the book (kxmlgui, a
main window, integrates on the system tray etc.) and KTp will blend in
your Plasma, which is a feature I value very positively.

I'd just like to clarify that a bit - KTp offers sets of (optional) applets which

allows you to use KTp from Plasma only, ie. there's a presence applet

(kinda like a systray icon), which expands into a contact list if clicked

and you can also have a chat applet (kinda like facebook chat). Besides

that it also has full QWidget based stuff too (also kxmlgui and friends).

Of course this can all be mixed and thanks to the architecture, new

completely different clients/UIs can exist and be mixed in too (theoretically

one could use the Empathy for audio/video calls, for example).

Cheers

Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer