[Kde-accessibility] [Bug 58685] No reconnection after disconnect

[Casey Allen Shobe]

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------- Additional Comments From cshobe at softhome.net  2003-10-21 20:39 -------
> MSN-Plugin on the other hand reports correctly, that the connection to the
> service has been lost and switches to "Offline"

I think this is probably because of the way the MSN protocol works.  It sends periodic packets requiring acknowledgement to know that the connection is still open.  AIM/ICQ have so such waste of bandwidth.  But AFAIK it's not yes possible to tell when a socket has been disconnected, which is the solution for protocols like AIM/ICQ.

> In particular im not able to set the status to "Offline" so that i can login
> again!! So the ICQ-Plugin is not available until restart of Kopete!!

Now that is a definite problem.  One should always be able to manually force an account offline for reconnection.  You may wish to file that as a separate bug.  Maybe also this prevents connection status from disconnecting the ICQ account when a direct connection (like dialup) is destroyed?