Bug 277508

Summary: kopete ignores that i have enabled "do not show user specified rich text"
Product: [Unmaintained] kopete Reporter: Jonas Nyrén <spectral>
Component: Chat WindowAssignee: Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: charles, c_erdmann, harloprillar, kde+bugs, luis6674, martin.weidner, pali.rohar, regtothismail, sebastian.rose, syadykin
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 1.0.80   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In: 4.12
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Jonas Nyrén 2011-07-10 21:56:07 UTC
Version:           1.0.80 (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

Even though I have ticked the option "Do not show user specified rich text" (as well as goreground/background color) in the chat window/colors & fonts config I still get text sent from some people displayed in the font/size that they use.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
I'm not sure, but perhaps try having someone send you messages where they specified some rich text options. The user I have problems with is sending me messages from kmess, not sure if that application is bugged - but it should nevertheless don't care about rich text as I have clearly disabled it in the prefs.

Actual Results:  
Remote user's specified font/size appears

Expected Results:  
My chosen font/size appears
Comment 1 c_erdmann 2011-09-22 19:25:19 UTC
Confirmed for ICQ clients.

$ uname -r
3.0-ARCH

$ kopete --version
Qt: 4.7.4
KDE: 4.7.1 (4.7.1)
Kopete: 1.1.1

None of the 'Formatting Overrides' options work for me when chatting with ICQ clients (not only the official one). Incoming text is displayed with contact-defined formatting.
Comment 2 Alberto Gonzalez 2011-11-03 13:15:35 UTC
Same problem here: I'm using a dark theme, so when I write and send a message in Kopete (using ICQ protocol) my text is of a light color. However, the messages I receive from my contact are in black color (and hardly readable), no matter if I disable the user specified rich text and background/foreground colors.
Comment 3 Samir Benmendil 2012-03-29 09:39:33 UTC
I can confirm this too... I only noticed it with people using Pidgin on the other side. I'm not sure it's exclusively them though.

$ uname -r
3.2-CHAKRA

$ kopete --version
Qt: 4.8.0
KDE Development Platform: 4.8.1 (4.8.1)
Kopete: 1.2.1
Comment 4 Samir Benmendil 2012-03-29 09:56:06 UTC
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 5 Martin Weidner 2012-05-04 08:05:32 UTC
I can confirm too. Often appears when chatting with "original icq users"

$ uname -r
3.2.0-24-generic

$ kopete --version
Qt: 4.8.1
KDE Development Platform: 4.8.2 (4.8.2)
Kopete: 1.2.1

hope that helps and the bug will fixed soon
Comment 6 Harlo Prillar 2012-09-21 10:35:15 UTC
Confirm this bug.

3.2.0-30-generic
Qt: 4.8.1
KDE Development Platform: 4.8.5 (4.8.5)
Kopete: 1.2.5
Comment 7 Aaron 2013-02-15 16:24:38 UTC
Can confirm the bug. Appeared when chatting with jabber (gtalk in particular) user who used digsby.

3.2.0-4-amd64
KDE 4.8.4
Qt 4.8.2
Kopete 1.2.3

This bug is pretty annoying, I wonder if it's going to be fixed at all.
Comment 8 Charles Samuels 2013-07-10 00:22:04 UTC
This continues to happen in KDE 4.8.4. It is easily reproducable on over XMPP.

Is Kopete actively maintained?
Comment 9 Pali Rohár 2013-07-16 18:11:42 UTC
Kopete is still maintained, but there are only few developers. Is your commit http://commits.kde.org/kopete/f6a8bb22dc19be2341daa8b0f053ae215be71ded really fixing this bug?
Comment 10 Charles Samuels 2013-07-16 18:40:22 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> Kopete is still maintained, but there are only few developers. Is your
> commit
> http://commits.kde.org/kopete/f6a8bb22dc19be2341daa8b0f053ae215be71ded
> really fixing this bug?

Yes. I removed the three checkboxes and replaced it with one general "Ignore formatting".

When you're willing to break plugin BC, I might be inclined to change the way messages are stored so that this kind of feature won't work so well.

And it does appear to be harder than expected to reproduce because apparantly a lot of public XMPP servers filter out formatting anyway (kdetalk.net and jabber.org included)
Comment 11 Pali Rohár 2013-07-16 19:16:13 UTC
Changing binary compatibility should not happen for any public kopete library. Just use KDE_DEPRECATED.