[Bug 287906] cannot add windows live messenger accounts

[David Edmundson]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287906





--- Comment #5 from David Edmundson <kde davidedmundson co uk>  2011-12-02 23:07:36 ---
It is a valid bug, though the title needs updating - he had butterfly
installed. So it appears in the list.
We have a plugin for butterfly so it has a nice UI.
However butterfly is a pile of rubbish so uses the old password API and our
stuff explodes. Our code prefers haze->MSN over butterfly->MSN but it was
designed to fall back.

We need to either:
1) Make it so we never show butterfly even if a plugin is available.
2) When dealing with something with a mandatory password field send it to MC
(which has the problems of opening gnome-keyring)
3) Fix butterfly (I can't see this happening)
4) Replace the butterfly UI plugin with a giant flashing marquee that says "go
away".

Ideally we want to avoid hardcoding hacks, as there is also msn-pecan (a lib
purple extension, which works perfectly with haze) which is yet another MSN
protocol to handle. Plus we have the possibility of XMPP-MSN through gabble...

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