Bug 190070

Summary:	Loses MSN settings on KDE 4.1 -> 4.2 upgrade
Product:	[Applications] kopete	Reporter:	Jonathan Thomas <echidnaman>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	bodom, mattr, perezmeyer
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Jonathan Thomas 2009-04-19 14:32:52 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Since the MSN plugin has been renamed to the WLM in KDE 4.2, users who had MSN accounts configured will lose their MSN account settings on upgrade.

The WLM Messenger accounts use the following section header

[Account_WlmProtocol_xyz@hotmail.com]

While the old MSN accounts use

[Account_MSNProtocol_xyz@hotmail.com]

Kopete should probably provide a kconf_update script to update the KDE 4.1/MSN configs to the KDE 4.2/WLM config.

Comment 1 Matt Rogers 2009-09-06 03:53:40 UTC

We don't have this and we're up to KDE 4.3 now. Is it still worth doing?

Comment 2 Jonathan Thomas 2009-09-06 04:04:26 UTC

Since most distributions have not done official releases including KDE 4.3, I would think that it would still be of great worth.

Comment 3 Matt Rogers 2009-09-06 05:23:16 UTC

*** Bug 189671 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Matt Rogers 2009-09-06 05:28:38 UTC

*** Bug 194248 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Jonathan Thomas 2010-07-12 16:07:51 UTC

...but by now I guess there's really not any point in doing this now, seeing as most people transitioned a year ago. Oh well.