On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I mentioned this a while back in another thread. Now it is even worse. > When I tell Kopete to make me "online" with Yahoo, I get a pop-up that > says I am using a old version of Yahoo messenger. If I close the > message box, it throws me offline. Basically, I can't stay online with > Kopete and Yahoo anymore. > > Info for kopete: > >> r...@smoker / # emerge -pv kopete:3.5 >> >> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: >> >> Calculating dependencies ... done! >> [ebuild R ] kde-base/kopete-3.5.10-r4 USE="crypt groupwise >> highlight history sametime ssl statistics texteffect yahoo >> -addbookmarks -alias -autoreplace -connectionstatus -contactnotes >> -debug -emoticons-manager -gadu -irc -jabber (-jingle) >> -kdehiddenvisibility -latex -msn -netmeeting -nowlistening -oscar -slp >> -sms -translator -v4l2 -webpresence -winpopup -xscreensaver" 0 kB >> >> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB >> r...@smoker / # > > As you can see, I'm still on KDE 3.5. I'm just not ready for KDE 4 > yet. If I filed a roach report, would it be fixed? Is there something > that I can do here to make this boo boo message go away and me stay > online? Maybe another port or something? > > Ideas?
Will it be fixed? Maybe, maybe not. A quick Googling and search of KDE's bugzilla shows that even the KDE 4.3 version of Kopete is failing to connect to Yahoo Messenger (for at least some people who filed bugs). I myself use Pidgin and it connects to Yahoo just fine.
