[kde-linux] Kopete refuses to connect to GTalk

[Jim Philips]

Nathan England wrote:
> On Saturday 27 December 2008 06:40:48 Jim Philips wrote:
>   
>> On Saturday 27 December 2008 04:52:24 Tanja Petri wrote:
>>     
>>> On Friday 26 December 2008 20:39:50 Jim Philips wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I'm running KDE 4.1.85 on Kubuntu Ibex and I have configured Kopete the
>>>> way that has always worked before. But it never says anything but
>>>> "Connecting" when I try to go online with GTalk. Other IM services
>>>> connect fine. I have installed qca2 and qca2-plugin-ossl as suggested
>>>> on the Kopete mailing list. It makes no difference. Anyone have any
>>>> ideas? GTalk is the service I use most often, so without it Kopete is
>>>> useless to me.
>>>>         
>>> Works fine here, also Kubuntu Intrepid:
>>>
>>> Kopete
>>> Version 0.60.3
>>> Using KDE 4.1.3 (KDE 4.1.3)
>>>
>>> That was a fresh install, about a week old, and without installing
>>> anything but the base system.
>>>
>>> Have you setup your account following the instructions on google.com?
>>> http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=57557
>>>       
>> Yes. I've done all of that and had Kopete working in previous versions. But
>> I'm running KDE 4.1.85, which is a different version and a different repo
>> from yours. Maybe this will be resolved in the fnal release of KDE 4.2,
>> which is only a few days away.
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>
>
> I was having a similar problem. I'm running PaysonLinux and have KDE 4.2 in 
> testing, which uses kopete 0.60.81, and I could not connect to gtalk. 
> I just tried connecting again and it errors out saying it could not find the 
> server. I have previously been connected to gtalk.google.com but now it must 
> be connected to talk.google.com. Maybe this is your problem?
>
> I googled kopete gtalk and found the first link to have exactly what I needed.
>
> nathan
>   

Thanks. That actually seems to work! The funny thing was that Kopete had
lost all password settings when I started it up again. Passwords were
stored earlier. I have now removed as many traces of KWallet as I could.
And I still think that was related to the earlier loss of account
settings in KMail and that starting Kopete without it caused me to lose
settings there too. At any rate, I'm avoiding KWallet wherever possible now.