# Menu Entries

Each menu item is discussed below. When there is a keyboard shortcut that performs a menu item function, the default shortcut is listed with the menu item.

## The Contact List Window's Menus

### File Menu

File Set Status Online

- Go online with all accounts

File Set Status Away

- Set all connected accounts away

File Set Status Offline

- Set all accounts offline

File Add Contact...

- This displays the Add Contact Wizard, which allows you to add a new contact to your list

File Create New Group...

- Prompts you for the new group's name and adds it to the contact list.

&Ctrl;Q File Quit

- Disconnects you from all &im; systems, closes all the windows and exits the application.

### Edit Menu

Edit Send Single Message...

- Opens an email-style message window with the selected contact, to send a single message.

Edit Start Chat...

- Opens a chat window with the selected contact, to have a conversation.

Edit Send File...

- If supported by the &im; system, this opens a file selector to choose a file to send to the selected contact.

Edit Move To

- (Enabled when a contact is selected) Choose another group from the sub-menu, and the contact will move to that group.

Edit Copy To

- (Enabled when a contact is selected) Choose a group from the sub-menu, and the contact will be copied to group. &im; systems that allow contacts to be in more than one group on the server contact list will be updated accordingly.

Edit Add Contact...

- (Enabled when a contact is selected) Choose another account from the submenu, and you can add another way to message that person using that account.

Edit Add to Your Contact List...

- (Enabled when a contact is selected) Sometimes people will message you who aren't on your contact list already. In this case, &kopete; creates a temporary entry for them, but to keep them on your contact list, use this function.

Del Edit Delete Contact

- (Enabled when a contact is selected) Removes a contact from the contact list entirely.

F2 Edit Rename

- (Enabled when a contact is selected) Renames the contact on the contact list. If you do this, the contact list entry will no longer change if the contact changes their display name remotely. You can re-enable this using the contact's Properties dialog.

Edit Properties

- The Properties dialog lets you choose custom icons for the selected item, and change its name.

  For contacts, you can change the &kde; Address Book entry that they are associated with.

Edit Remove Group

- (Enabled when a group is selected) Removes a group from the contact list entirely. Any contacts that are only in this group are moved to the top level.

Edit Rename Group

- (Enabled when a group is selected) Renames the group.

### Settings Menu

&kopete; has a default &kde; Settings menu as described in the &kde; Fundamentals with additional entries:

Settings Show Offline Users

- This shows/hides contacts who are currently offline. They will become visible when they go online again.

&Ctrl;G Settings Show Empty Groups

- This shows/hides groups which do not have any members, or where all the members are offline and hidden (see above).

Settings Configure Global Shortcuts...

- Displays the &kde; standard Configure Global Shortcuts dialog, where you can change keyboard shortcuts that work all the time under &kde;.

### Help Menu

The contact list window has the common &kde; Help menu items, for more information read the section about the Help Menu of the &kde; Fundamentals.

## The Chat Window's Menus

### Chat Menu

Return Chat Send Message

- Sends a message.

&Ctrl;S Chat Save

- Saves the content of the chat to a file.

&Ctrl;P Chat Print...

- Prints off a hard copy of the chat.

Chat Contacts

- This menu lists all the people in the chat. You have access to the same contact menu you get by right-clicking a contact's name in the Contact List, allowing you to perform contact specific actions such as sending them a file, viewing their user info or blocking them.

&Ctrl;W Chat Close

- Closes the current chat. If there are chats taking place in other tabs in this window, the window will stay open.

&Ctrl;Q Chat Quit

- Closes all chats taking place in this window.

### Edit Menu

&Ctrl;X Edit Cut

- Cutting text works as with most editors: the selected text is removed and put into the clipboard. Note that you can also select text and drag it to a new position.

&Ctrl;C Edit Copy

- Copying text works as with most editors: the selected text is copied to the clipboard. Note that you can also select text while holding the &Ctrl; key, and drag it to a new position to copy it.

&Ctrl;V Edit Paste

- Pasting works the same as with most editors: the text from the clipboard is pasted at the current cursor position.

### Format Menu

Format Add Smiley

- This menu contains all the smileys/emoticons that the current emoticon scheme includes. You can change the scheme in the Configure Kopete Dialog.

### Tabs Menu

Tabs Tab Placement

- This menu allows you to change whether tabs appear at the top or the bottom of the chat view.

&Ctrl;&Shift;B Tabs Detach Chat

- Separates the current chat into its own window.

Tabs Move Tab to Window

- You can move chats between windows using this menu. Choose the chat window the tab should move to from the menu.

### Tools Menu

This menu contains items added by the plugins you have loaded. See the plugins chapter for details.

### Settings Menu

&kopete; has a default &kde; Settings menu as described in the &kde; Fundamentals with additional entries:

Settings Show Participants

- This menu controls whether the Participants list appears on the right of the Chat View.

### Help Menu

The chat window has the common &kde; Help menu items, for more information read the section about the Help Menu of the &kde; Fundamentals.