Bug 139498

Summary:	Disable "Downloading of Jabber contact photo failed!" error dialog
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	madman <madman>
Component:	Jabber Plugin	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	0.12.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description madman 2007-01-02 12:34:01 UTC

Version:           0.12.3 (using KDE 3.5.5, Gentoo)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.18-ck1

When starting Kopete or when the Jabber plugin reconnects to the server (eg. after network outage or computer woke up from Software Suspend), i get an annoying "Downloading of Jabber contact photo failed!" error dialog from one of my contacts.
The same error appears after right-clicking this contact and selecting User info.

As this error messages is quite useless (ok, the photo is not there, but anyway nothing can be done to repair this) and very annoying in my situation, I'd like to see this error dialog removed from kopete.

Other than that, it would be nice to have an option to disable contact photos altogether (eg. 'Do not fetch and display contact photos' in jabber plugin settings)

Comment 1 Dominik Tritscher 2008-07-21 00:38:18 UTC

Can't confirm that on KDE 4.1 RC1.

Comment 2 George Kiagiadakis 2008-07-22 14:37:50 UTC

I can't reproduce with KDE 4.0.99 but I can confirm that the error message still exists in the source code and it can happen if the contact's avatar is broken.

- in kdenetwork/kopete/protocols/jabber/jabberbasecontact.cpp:639:
// Downalod photo from URI.
if( !KIO::NetAccess::download( vCard.photoURI(), tempPhotoPath, 0) )
{
	KMessageBox::queuedMessageBox( Kopete::UI::Global::mainWidget (), KMessageBox::Sorry, i18n( "Downloading of Jabber contact photo failed!" ) );
	return;
}

This is a wishlist item probably... maybe kopete could just output that message in stderr.

Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-18 18:26:42 UTC

Dear user, unfortunately Kopete is no longer maintained.

Please migrate to another solution, e.g. for Jabber a possibility is Kaidan, for Matrix a candidate is NeoChat.