Bug 220635

Summary:	adding or authorising users while invisible doesn't work (wlm aka msn)
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	Jorge Adriano <jorge.adriano>
Component:	WLM Plugin	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	0.80.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Jorge Adriano 2009-12-30 05:34:54 UTC

Version:           0.80.2 (using 4.3.4 (KDE 4.3.4) "release 2", KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Desktop / openSUSE_11.2)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.31.5-0.1-default


Once again, I got a request while invisible, selected "add" and nothing. After doing this the contact shows up as being "blocked". I can't see them online and they can't see me online. Leaving invisible mode doesn't help.

Still not sure how to fix this, but a combination of getting out of invisible mode, clicking on the "block profile" option to try and disable it, sending a request to add that user, and restarting kopete seems to do the trick. Which combination of steps actually solves it I have no idea.

I only started suspecting some bug after this happened a few times. The first times were with people I had just met and for whom I had no other contact. Months after adding them (or so I thought) I still hadn't seen them online and wondered why. And I'm sure they thought I had just ignored their requests. I wouldn't be surprise if other people had lost contacts this way.

Comment 1 Roman Jarosz 2010-01-03 01:04:34 UTC

Is this in WLM protocol?

Comment 2 Roman Jarosz 2010-01-03 01:05:35 UTC

Ignore my last question

Comment 3 Jorge Adriano 2011-03-01 22:46:50 UTC

Guys I think this even got worse now. As usually I was invisible, when I got a request from someone I had met the night before. I selected "add". Her contact is nowhere to be found. 

It's not that hard to try to confirm this bug.

Comment 4 Jorge Adriano 2011-03-01 23:23:21 UTC

eh nevermind, it's working now after all... it was just showing the address instead of name