[kde-linux] kopete and jabber

[david]

Dale wrote:
> david wrote:
>> Ryan Rix wrote:
>>   
>>> david wrote:
>>>     
>>>> The message from the Yahoo admin - I got it, too - says that Kopete
>>>> 0.12.7 is too old a client. I don't know why, although I presume us poor
>>>> old KDE3 users won't get that problem fixed anytime soon ... anyway,
>>>> Pidgin 2.4.3 works fine with Yahoo.
>>>>       
>>> Yahoo changed the server protocol. KDE4 is patched for it, and pidgin, but 
>>> we'll likely NOT see the fix backported to KDE3.
>>>     
>> Gee, starting to sound almost Microsoftish there: "You want to talk our 
>> new protocol/file format, buy the new version."
>>
>> And "Buy" applies even to free software. Instead of money, you're paying 
>> with your own time and effort to install, configure, debug, etc.
>>
>> Never know about backports, though. This kind of thing sounds like it 
>> would have absolutely KDE4-dependent connections. It can't be that hard, 

Sorry, that should have read "absolutely NO KDE4-dependent connections".

>> or Pidgin wouldn't already be talking the new server protocol. I 
>> wouldn't be surprised if someone doesn't do a backport.
> 
> I hope they do.  I'm still on KDE 3.5 myself.  Just not ready for the
> new KDE 4 yet.

Me, too. And there are still times when I prefer Fluxbox to all of them! ;-)

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