From: Joe Feise on
Zootal wrote on 10/16/09 21:45:

> "Joe" <invalid(a)mailinator.com> wrote in message
>> I'll stick with KDE 3.5 for now. 4.2 isn't usable.
>> The only bad thing with 3.5 is that Yahoo IM support in kopete is broken.
>> The
>> fix is only in 4.[23].
>>
>> -Joe
>>
>
> Know of any good alternatives that run in KDE 3.5? I tried a few, but they
> were either old and klunky, would not compile, or didn't work with Yahoo.

Pidgin.
They implemented the fix for Yahoo first, and the Kopete maintainer got it from
them.

From: Joe on
Joe Feise wrote on 10/17/09 10:08:

> Zootal wrote on 10/16/09 21:45:
>
>> "Joe" <invalid(a)mailinator.com> wrote in message
>>> I'll stick with KDE 3.5 for now. 4.2 isn't usable.
>>> The only bad thing with 3.5 is that Yahoo IM support in kopete is broken.
>>> The
>>> fix is only in 4.[23].
>>>
>>> -Joe
>>>
>> Know of any good alternatives that run in KDE 3.5? I tried a few, but they
>> were either old and klunky, would not compile, or didn't work with Yahoo.
>
> Pidgin.
> They implemented the fix for Yahoo first, and the Kopete maintainer got it from
> them.
>


There now is a patch for Kopete 0.12.7, the version in KDE 3.5, available:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdenetwork/+bug/430069/comments/2
I just re-build the kdenetwork package with that patch included. Works fine.

-Joe