Bug 202576

Summary:	Having set initial status to invisible, Kopete doesn't connect to GTalk at all
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	Christian Muehlhaeuser <muesli>
Component:	Jabber Plugin	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	alinm.elena, mathias.v44, pali.rohar, timorei
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Christian Muehlhaeuser 2009-08-05 08:13:53 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I have set my Kopete to connect as "invisible" on startup.

It connects to ICQ and MSN just fine, but it doesn't show any Google Talk contacts online.
Then i switch the status from Invisible (it shows up as being invisible and online in the status) for the google talk / jabber plugin to Online and suddenly all my contacts pop up as online.

If I now switch to Invisible manually again, all my contacts remain online and I really seem to be invisible.

Conclusion: Having initial status set to invisible makes Kopete not connect to Google Talk / Jabber, and falsely advertise its current status as Online (Invisible).

Comment 1 Alin M Elena 2009-09-26 11:54:01 UTC

I can confirm it on 

kopete
Version 0.99.80
Using KDE 4.3.68 (KDE 4.3.68 (KDE 4.4 >= 20090916)) "release 5"

opensuse packages.

Alin

Comment 2 Mathias Védrines 2009-12-19 13:11:28 UTC

The problem still persists.
It's a bit strange though, I have a Jabber account on jabber.fr, and another on gmail.com: the problem occurs only with the GTalk account!

Kopete version 0.80.2 under KDE 4.3.3, Fedora 11 packages.

Comment 3 Timo 2010-01-11 13:46:08 UTC

Qt: 4.6.0
KDE Development Platform: 4.3.90 (KDE 4.3.90 (KDE 4.4 RC1))
Kopete: 0.99.90

And the problem still persists. 

As I understand this is about how invisible isn't managed by most jabber servers at all, and commonly perceived as not supported by the xmpp protocol.

Still: even reverting to 'online visible' for the jabber accounts would be preferable. It would be fantastic to set the initial state of connection by an on account basis.

Comment 4 Pali Rohár 2013-06-04 16:56:30 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> It connects to ICQ and MSN just fine, but it doesn't show any Google Talk
> contacts online.

This is what google's xmpp server doing. Closing as invalid, because Kopete cannot do anything about it.