Bug 146923

Summary: Migrate new kopete in kde4 to Libpurple
Product: [Unmaintained] kopete Reporter: David Heidelberg <david>
Component: generalAssignee: Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: alan.cramer, bart
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description David Heidelberg 2007-06-18 16:43:38 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

Hi, is possible that, kopete has started to use libpurple libraly? :-)

AdiumX working with libpurple, in roadmap centreim is too migrate to libpurple... :-)
Comment 1 Egor 2007-06-18 16:52:30 UTC
Hello!

Please no! :) libpurple is outdated (ICQ/MSN) and is buggy as well as  
Pidgin is. Kopete has been developing plugins for years so I think there's  
no reason to stop it and switch to another, worse in my opinion, library.

18.06.07 в 18:43 okias в своём письме писал(а):

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Comment 2 Urs Wolfer 2007-06-18 16:57:15 UTC
*** Bug 146924 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Matt Rogers 2007-06-19 05:07:24 UTC
Sorry, but this won't be happening. We've invested years in our own equivalent library and protocol implementations and there's no compelling technical reasons for us to switch.
Comment 4 Jiann-Ming Su 2008-03-22 05:14:10 UTC
No compelling reason?  How about that both AdiumX and Pidgin (even in the Gaim days) have supported Jabber TLS.  The latest release of Kopete still does not.  Last I checked, Kopete is neither bug free nor fully featured.  Figure out what you guys want to work on.
Comment 5 Alan Cramer 2010-10-16 08:10:52 UTC
Wouldn't it make more sense in having more Open Source developers working on one set of plugins, instead of two?
Comment 6 Bart 2011-01-20 14:21:36 UTC
Euh.. reasons?? libpurple supports a LOT more protocols.
one is for example: Microsoft office communicator! (SIP)
A protocol which is VERY important for desktops @ the office.
THATs why pidgin is the most used open source client on Linux & Windows, and not kopete