Bug 160316

Summary:	add option to completely disable webcam support in kopete
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	Cyrill Helg <phlogi1>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	fschaefer.oss, marc.collin
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	0.12.7
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Cyrill Helg 2008-04-03 13:03:08 UTC

Version:           0.12.7 (using 3.5.8, Kubuntu (gutsy) 4:3.5.8-0ubuntu3.3)
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.22-14-generic

Kopete hangs really long at startup when initialising webcam. If a user don't want webcam support at all thats a annoying. So it would be great if there's an option to just disable the whole webcam subsystem in kopete.

Comment 1 Marc Collin 2008-11-26 00:22:41 UTC

ya that could be a very nice option to add

Comment 2 Frank Schaefer 2010-03-09 18:27:09 UTC

We recently introduced the possibility to compile Kopete without video-support.

Adding a runtime switch wouldn't make sense, simply don't use video devices if you don't want to.

The "hangs on startup" bug is tracked as bug 167011.