Just tried to do some chat with a friend. When I doubleclick the contact to chat I get a plasma notification: org.freedesktop.Telepathy.error.NotAvailable: Handler no longer available. Reproducible: Always
Check you have ktp-text-ui installed. Try everything here: http://community.kde.org/Real-Time_Communication_and_Collaboration/Troubleshooting#Nothing_happens_when_I_try_and_start_a_chat_with_someone_from_the_contact_list and report back.
Btw. which distro are you using? They might have broken packages. As a side note, MSN is going to retire pretty soon [1], then it will stop working completely with KTp. [1] - http://blog.gadgethelpline.com/microsoft-retiring-msn-messenger-favour-skype/
Using kubuntu packages There is no ktp-text-ui in my repos. I installed libktpchat0 but that didn't change anything. I just tried with my google talk account. I get same error message.
It's called: kde-telepathy-text-ui in Kubuntu
I installed kde-telepathy kde-telepathy-minimal kde-telepathy-text-ui plasma-widget-telepathy-chat I still get the same error though
Try logging out and back in.
After logout/login of KDE it works :-) So it is a dependency issue with Kubuntus packages? Missing kde-telepathy-text-ui.
Quite possibly. Though if you install kde-telepathy, I'm pretty sure it will install all correctly. Still packages should depend on themselves (or at least on kde-telepathy package) to get everything. This, however, is not something we can do ourselves (but we can nudge the right people).
In Kubuntu the package kde-telepathy depends on kde-telepathy-minimal which depends on kde-telepathy-text-ui. So it's actually quite hard not to have kde-telepathy-text-ui installed.
@jonathan true, but the package kde-telepathy-contact-list (ktp-contactlist) which advertises itself in the menu as KDE IM does not depend kde-telepathy. The point is that kde-telepathy-text-ui is not installed but kde-telepathy-contact-list is. I don't recall installing anything before reporting a bug here. I just used the KDE IM program in the menu.