I got a patch for this ready and working in a standalone app.  Will post it
here tomorrow when I've made sure it works with kopete. (Still haven't quite
grokked the kde build system, so I'm just recompiling kde from scratch)

Created an attachment (id=10779) [details]
Correct cropping of non-square display images

Applies to Kopete from KDE_3_4_BRANCH

CVS commit by ogoffart: 

Fix Bug 104445: MSN Display Picture Stretched
BUG: 104445
Patch by Leo Spalteholz, thanks


  M +20 -4     msneditaccountwidget.cpp   1.35


--- kdenetwork/kopete/protocols/msn/ui/msneditaccountwidget.cpp  #1.34:1.35
@@ -281,6 +281,16 @@ void MSNEditAccountWidget::slotSelectIma
 
         QImage img( path );
-        img = img.smoothScale( 96, 96 );
-        if ( !img.isNull() && img.save( futurName, "PNG" ) )
+
+        if(!img.isNull()) {
+                img = img.smoothScale( 96, 96, QImage::ScaleMax );
+                // crop image if not square
+                if(img.width() > img.height()) {
+                        img = img.copy((img.width()-img.height())/2, 0, img.height(), img.height());
+                }
+                else if(img.height() > img.width()) {
+                        img = img.copy(0, (img.height()-img.width())/2, img.width(), img.width());
+                }
+
+                if ( img.save( futurName, "PNG" ) )
         {
                 d->ui->m_displayPicture->setPixmap( futurName );
@@ -291,4 +301,10 @@ void MSNEditAccountWidget::slotSelectIma
                         "Make sure that you have selected a correct image file</qt>" ), i18n( "MSN Plugin" ) );
         }
+        }
+        else
+        {
+                KMessageBox::sorry( this, i18n( "<qt>An error occurred when trying to change the display picture.<br>"
+                        "Make sure that you have selected a correct image file</qt>" ), i18n( "MSN Plugin" ) );
+        }
         if( remoteFile ) KIO::NetAccess::removeTempFile( path );
 }