I no longer develop or even use most of the software in this section. Contact me if you need support or custom development of something here, or if you're interested in taking over development of something here. Arrangements can be made in either case.
Light Hawk is a KDE Jabber client. It is unfinished, but I have been using it every day for some time now.
Those interested in following or helping development should use GNU arch 1.2 or later. My
archive is neil@hakubi.us--terminus and is available at
http://www.hakubi.us/arch/terminus/. The branch to get is
lighthawk--mainline. To compile the arch version of Light Hawk
you will also need to get
neil@hakubi.us--terminus/admin--KDE-3-0-BRANCH and symlink that
into the top level of lighthawk as "admin". After that it's mostly an ordinary
KDE application (run gmake -f Makefile.cvs to get a configure
script). You must run that configure script in a separate directory, though,
arch to cooperate later.
What is done so far:
- Roster management
- Subscriptions
- Chat messages
- Receving normal messages
- Multiple user profiles
- Session management cooperation
- Logging
- KNotify support (including sounds)
- Invisible status
- Away messages
- IPv6, Proxies, and other KDE network features
What is coming sooner or later:
- Headline viewer
- Non-chat Message composer
- Groupchat support
- Log browsing
- SSL
- GnuPG encryption
- XHTML messages
- Full XMPP compliance using Iris.
Download
Download for KDE 3.1 lighthawk-0.6.tar.bz2 (902663 bytes) (Signature by 0x28103A61)
Screenshots
The Roster:
A chat window using utf8 to its fullest:
Some Credits
Justin Karneges' libpsi is the basis of much of this application now, and his Iris will be used as a replacement of that libpsi later.
Shu-yu Guo ( 郭纾宇 ) provided the beautiful icons.
Jason Katz-Brown's cvs2dist was used to make release packages.
James Blomo's efforts helped keep this project alive.
The Name
For more information on Light Hawks, see the relevant works by AIC