Hi,
I'm curious of why is ktalkd missing from KDE4?
I had it in KDE3, and i liked it very much.
Is there any compatible alternative?

What function did ktalkd perform in KDE 3? If it did text to speech, then it was renamed to kttsd.

no, it was talk daemon. but thanks for the information.

I would like to renew the question about ktalkd @ KDE4. To answer the question above, it was a version of the talk demon that opened a Qt-window asking the user running the KDE desktop whether he would accept the invitation to chat with another user. If the invitation was accepted, ktalkd would open an ordinary terminal (konsole or xterm) and proceed with the talk protocol.

Admittedly there might not be too many users for that as the talk application is way old - from the 70ies or 80ies of the previous century - loooong before Linus Thorvalds decided to set up something that was later called linux. Also most users use other chat tools today like kopete (and all the chat protocols it offers).

But talk has one big advantage - it does not contact a central server. So if you are on a private network behind a firewall, the talk initialization with ktalkd and the contents of the talk stay completely behind the firewall. So, in case of wired connections or wireless only through VPN, all chat content are safely obscured from an outside intruder.

C. Pospiech

I need this also--in KDE5. There's nothing better. Don't suggest something more complicated & stupid.