Version: 0.70.0 (using 4.2.00 (KDE 4.2.0), Gentoo) Compiler: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.25-gentoo-r7-20080501 Whenever someone messages me and I don't have a chat window open, I get two notification popups: One view/ignore popup for the chat being started (not very useful because it doesn't show a preview of what they said) and one for them saying something. (what I actually find useful)
Is this still happening?
No clue. I switched to Pidgin about a year ago after getting fed up with the regressions and ongoing lack of fixes for reported bugs that someone already familiar with the codebase could trivially fix. Shortly after, I got fed up with my old Celeron 2Ghz being more responsive than my dual-core muscle machine and swapped out KDE for LXDE, so, aside from K3b, KDiff3, Tellico, Okular, the Qt3 version of BasKet, and a copy of KNotes I'm migrating away from, I don't run anything KDE-based anymore.
Well, I was not satified with KDE 4.x until the 4.4.0 version, but instead of given up I started implementing missing features and bugfixing Kopete and other KDE programs. I like working with KDE libs/programs and working with the other KDE developers. I even went to Akademy in Finland (I live in Brazil) and Solid Sprint in Madrid last year, it was very nice, specially because KDE e.V. helped me with the expenses. Sorry if are being slow to implement the missing features. I cannot reproduce this bug in KDE SC 4.6.1, can I close it?
I just don't have time to bugfix KDE. Aside from being a Python and web programmer mainly, I've already got more than enough projects of my own. Besides, given how the people I talked to seemed to think that "Well, KDE 3.0 was a mess too" was a valid excuse for poor release management and that it too me a while to realize that I was coming across as rude because it was a flawed assumption that a big, impressive project MUST have better quality control procedures than a nerd in his basement, I just lost confidence in KDE's ability to help me accomplish my goals rather than hindering them... especially given how Konqueror (which is apparently almost bitrotting) was the main draw in KDE 3.5 and an utter mess, last I checked, in KDE 4. (And why did they have to develop Dolphin just so they could refuse to support KParts to hide the fact that they hadn't really accomplished anything?) It would be like expecting you to take time away from working on KDE because the kernel is too buggy to just get out of the way and let you get things done. Anyway, feel free to close this bug.
The real problem is that KDE is too big and some programs have too few developers, Kopete is one of them. Konqueror used to have several developers but since Apple created Safari and some time later when webkit was created several Kopete/khtml developers moved to webkit. In general KDE developers are free to choose where to work on, so the parts seen as less interesting are left behing until someone tries to do something to improve them.
True. I know the feeling. However, as a detail-oriented person, I just can't sympathize with people who can't be bothered to write up a simple pre-release checklist/procedure for testing. (Not that KDE has a monopoly on that. The address bar in GTK+ file dialogs is an utterly horrible mess) Anyway, this is fairly off-topic, so let's stop here.