Comments on: Kopete and Yahoo!

By: Murray Trainer

Murray Trainer — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:56:31 +0000

For the KDE 3.5 users there is a bug here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdenetwork/+bug/430069

Please vote for a fix.

Murray

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:42:19 +0000

Matt,

Trying to install the Kopete subversion on Jaunty Kubuntu Linux. Thanks for the fix. Glad to know I can continue with Kopete.

By: Tynach

Tynach — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:49:15 +0000

Jim, thanks for that. Works

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:16:14 +0000

Well, then:
bye bye Kopete, it was nice but I have no time for trouble, again and again installing and fiddeling with the OS… going for Pidgin now… best to use a desktop for desktop and not bloat it with a lot of proggies that then get out of support!

By: mattr

mattr — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:42:29 +0000

This doesn’t fix the email notifications.

It won’t be available for KDE 3.5, even if it affects those versions. KDE as a whole doesn’t have the manpower to support the KDE 3 series anymore. But like Jim said, the patch is available and can be backported.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:11:56 +0000

One more thing for those waiting on packages from their distributions: In the mean time, you can override the default server for your Yahoo
accounts with: cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com

It is working now and will continue to work until Yahoo upgrades this
server.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:52:05 +0000

Actually, the advantage of Open Source is that you can modify it yourself, or have someone (anyone who can) to do it for you.

You do not need to move to KDE 4; I’m sure the fix can easily be ported to the KDE 3 code. Probably some one will be willing to do it and posted back to the community.

By: analityk

analityk — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:09:49 +0000

Pepe, yep. Every method of development has its + and -.

By: Pepe

Pepe — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:10:28 +0000

I would like to know if this affects kopete from kde 3.5.10, and in that case, is there any patch to solve it?
Why is it that when we finally have something good and stable going on, like kde 3, support stops and we are forced to move to something new, slow and full of bugs like kde 4, only because kde 3 is not exciting anymore to develop.
Thats the problem with opensource, as soon as its not exciting anymore, its not supported.

By: lostson

lostson — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:43:51 +0000

Will this get pushed back to the 3.5 series as well ? I see you writing about the 4 series but no talk about # ?

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:49:39 +0000

Thanks for the fix!

Will this fix also bring the email notification back? Or is it completely unrelated? (the email notification has not been working for a much longer time now, but who knows, maybe it was related to this issue).

By: Zeke Connor

Zeke Connor — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:23:22 +0000

Thank you and everyone else. I thought I had a busted yahoo plugin and didn’t know that it was yahoo’s fault >.>. But yeah, I’m surprised from what I remember msnp never did this, you can still use msn from like 5 years ago and still work today as long as it’s above 10 iirc. But blah, I only have yahoo to talk to my friends. I hate yahoo >.<