Version: (using KDE KDE 3.3.2) Installed from: SuSE RPMs Settings->Configure Notifications: "A contact has come online" "A contact has gone offline" "A contact's online status has changed" These notifications aren't fired when I "have come online", I "have gone offine" and/or my "online status has changed". This renders "Log to a file" pretty useless since there's no chance to check wether it was possible to get the online status at all, and therefore the log looks strange, e.g.: - KNotify So Feb 27 18:28:16 2005: foo ist jetzt Online. - KNotify So Feb 27 20:27:32 2005: foo ist jetzt Online.
Correct, they don't.
The German translation was misleading me? There it's called "A user..." ("Ein Benutzer ...") and I'm definitively a user but I'm not sure wether my account is a contact or not per definitionem. Nonetheless, the present behaviour makes sense for GUI affecting events but not for "Log to file:" or/and "Print a message to standard error output" notifications. So I would call it a defect (the nonfulfilment of intended usage requirements. (ISO 8402)). ;-)
And since it's an unimplemented feature, it's a wishlist for us. We don't deal with defects.
I can only speak from my/user's point of view: The mentioned events are "implemented", have a look at: "Configure Kopete..."->Behavior->Chat->"Show events in chat window" Perhaps the naming is a sort of inconsistent as "Configure Notifications..." is about "events", too!
Does this problem happen in Kopete from KDE SC 4.6.1?