From: Joe Feise on 17 Oct 2009 13:08 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.
From: Joe on 16 Nov 2009 01:15
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 |