[kde-freebsd] Kopete 0.12.7 (KDE 3.5.10) && change in Yahoo protocoll

Raphael Kubo da Costa kubito at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 22:31:56 CEST 2009


2009/9/17 Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe at freebsd.org>:
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> On September 17, 2009 09:01:50 am Matthias Apitz wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Since some weeks the connect to Kopete brings up a (stupid*) error
>> messages:
>>
>>  < Yahoo! Admin >  You are using an older version of Yahoo! Messenger
>>  that is no longer supported. Please upgrade by downloading the newest
>>  version by going to: http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php
>>
>> Is there a way to avoid this without updating to KDE4?
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>         matthias
>>
>> PS: *) I say stupid because there is no FreeBSD client in
>> http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php for download; maybe Yahoo should
>> fix this or the message.
>
> We understand your frustration.
>
> As KDE3 is no longer the focus of development upline, it is highly unlikely
> that there will be a fix for this.
>
> So short of opting for a different client that supports Y!, KDE4 might be in
> your future.
>
> Sorry, not the answer you were looking for.

If I understood the issue correctly, there's more information about
this here: http://mattr.info:8080/blog/2009/06/24/kopete-and-yahoo/

And yes, KDE3 isn't maintained anymore, so the fixes have only been
done to KDE4.


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