Bug 198821

Summary:	Kopete starts disconnected, although initial status is set to online
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	andresbajotierra, vincent.rabaud
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Clemens Eisserer 2009-07-03 20:18:42 UTC

Version:           0.70.90 / kde-4.2.95 (using KDE 4.2.90)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

Although I've set "Initial-Status" to "Online", both my ICQ and Jabber account are in disconnected state after starting kopete.

This worked with KDE-4.2.3 and somehow broke when I upgraded to KDE-4.2.85. It still does not work with RC1 :-/

Comment 1 Clemens Eisserer 2009-07-27 01:15:37 UTC

hello?
Not even anyone reading bug reports?

Comment 2 Clemens Eisserer 2009-07-27 01:16:42 UTC

hello?
Not even anyone reading bug reports?

Comment 3 Dario Andres 2009-08-17 21:10:17 UTC

Still happening with 4.3.0 ?
Bug 202622 and bug 183307 could have some relation.
Regards

Comment 4 Vincent Rabaud 2009-08-18 00:28:42 UTC

Not working for me on Kubuntu 9.04 and KDE 4.3 final, on both GTalk and MSN.

Comment 5 Clemens Eisserer 2009-08-18 10:12:18 UTC

I think for me the problem is kopete relies on networkmanager to query the online-status of my laptop.

However when using my mobile usb connector I don't use networmaganer (instead I use a program called 'umtsmon' to etablish a connection), so kopete thinks the whole system is in offline mode and doesn't connect itself.

Comment 6 Matt Rogers 2009-09-06 04:12:48 UTC

Kopete does rely on NetworkManager for this functionality. Later versions of NetworkManager have better mobile broadband support (at least that's what I've read) so it could be possible than an update to the latest version of Fedora could fix this. 

That's really about the only way to get this fixed, unless somebody writes a Solid backend for utmsmon

Comment 7 Clemens Eisserer 2009-09-06 21:37:03 UTC

I am already on rawhide, and the only thing that changed is that with Fedora-11 networkmanager ignored my umts stick, and with Rawhide knetworkmanager crashes somewhere.

I really would prefer some checkbox in kde's control center where I could disable networkmanager support. FireFox provides something like this.