{"id":32660,"date":"2020-08-21T15:50:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T15:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=32660"},"modified":"2024-04-24T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T16:30:16","slug":"kaidan-xmpp-chat-client-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/08\/kaidan-xmpp-chat-client-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaidan &#8211; Modern XMPP Chat Client for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kaidan-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32661\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kaidan is a simple, user-friendly chat client that uses the open communication protocol XMPP (Jabber) and runs on Linux, Mac OS, Android, Plasma Mobile and Ubuntu Touch.<\/p>\n<p>The software is written in C++ with Qt and the Qt-based XMPP library QXmpp. Unlike other chat apps, you are not dependent on one specific service provider.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kaidan.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kaidan-screenshot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"290\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kaidan-screenshot.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kaidan-screenshot-450x218.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaidan features: supported XEPs \/ RFCs and planned XEPs. The latest release so far is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaidan.im\/2020\/04\/06\/kaidan-0.5.0\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaidan 0.5<\/a> that contains QR code scanning and generation, message search, and more.<\/p>\n<h4>Get Kaidan chat client:<\/h4>\n<p>Source code, APK, Appimage, and Mac os packages are available for download at the link below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='https:\/\/download.kde.org\/stable\/kaidan\/' class='arconix-button-flat arconix-button-large arconix-button-tan' target=\"_blank\" >Download Kaidan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Linux, grab the <code>.appimage<\/code> package, make executable in file&#8217;s Properties > Permissions. And finally run it to launch the chat app.<\/p>\n<p>As an alternative, Kaidan is also available in flatpak package:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/details\/im.kaidan.kaidan' class='arconix-button-flat arconix-button-large arconix-button-tan' target=\"_blank\" >Kaidan in Flathub<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaidan is a simple, user-friendly chat client that uses the open communication protocol XMPP (Jabber) and runs on Linux, Mac OS, Android, Plasma Mobile and Ubuntu Touch. The software is written in C++ with Qt and the Qt-based XMPP library QXmpp. Unlike other chat apps, you are not dependent on one specific service provider. Kaidan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[1979],"class_list":["post-32660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-review","tag-xmpp"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}