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On Thursday 13 March 2008, Paul Sobey wrote: |
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> b.n. wrote: |
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> > I switched from aMSN to Kopete to have a decent msn client that also |
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> > works with gtalk. |
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> > |
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> > Unfortunately I found that kopete has some kind of bug with MSN |
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> > contacts. It's apparently impossible to *add* a new contact (if I try, |
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> > it says nothing just like it's working, but the contact is not added |
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> > -not in kopete, and not in other clients), and most importantly it does |
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> > not *delete* contacts. Worst of it all, if I delete contacts in another |
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> > client, say, aMSN, next time I launch Kopete: |
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> > - the contact reappear in the Kopete list |
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> > - if I then close Kopete and open aMSN, the contact I deleted *are |
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> > indeed added again* to my MSN account! |
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> > |
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> > I would prefer to avoid Gaim/Pidgin if possible. |
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> |
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> Kopete has always done this for me, it's incredibly annoying. If you |
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> find a solution please post back here! Since you stipulated GTalk, my |
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> only recommendation other than Kopete would be Pidgin. If you want an |
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> MSN-only client at some point you might try Mercury Messenger (Java |
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> based, very full support, including webcam), or the excellent KMess |
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> (relatively young, no webcam or other tricks but light, fast and nicely |
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> integrated into KDE). I've recently discovered the latter and it's now |
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> my MSN program of choice. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Paul |
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I don't really have a solution, just a kludge. If you feel inclined to |
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delete/add contacts you may wish to dive into |
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~/.kde3.5/share/apps/kopete/contactlist.xml |
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An xml or text editor should make it easy to edit the contents. |
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If no bug has been raised for this, you may want to oblige? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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