Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 02 September 2009 13:09:20 Dale wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday 02 September 2009 09:52:23 Dale wrote: >>> >>>> I may have pasted the wrong thing. I do have both KDE 3 and KDE 4 >>>> installed but I use KDE 3. This is the message I get for the record: >>>> >>>> (01:17:17) Yahoo! Admin: You are using an older version of Yahoo! >>>> Messenger that is no longer supported. Please upgrade by downloading the >>>> newest version by going to: http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php >>>> >>> Honestly, dump yahoo and go with google talk. Convince your friends to do >>> the same. >>> >>> Insane yahoo issues just go away when you do this. >>> >> Well, I have problems with Kopete loosing my settings for google talk. >> I don't know why, it just does. I just gave up since I don't know >> anyone that uses it anyway. Well, I guess you do but still. :/ >> > > Down here at the tip of darkest Africa in good 'ol ZA almost no-one uses > Yahoo. We escaped the popularity of that scourge, thank $DEITY for that. > > gtalk is popular, so is MSN. I used to have eternal issues with Yahoo and > still have them with MSN, but gtalk is rock stable for me. > > Horses for courses I guess. >
I liked gtalk, just had trouble with it loosing its setup. Maybe KDE 4 will be better. > > >> Then again, Kopete forces me to re-enter my Yahoo password every time I >> restart Kopete too. It seems as a security measure it adds extra dots >> to the end so hackers can't tell how many characters are in the >> password. Thing is, that screws up the password as well. So much for >> the "remember password" option. >> > > Do you use kwallet, and is kopete authorized to open it? > > Well, if I use kwallet, I have to type it in too. So, either way, I have to type in a password whether it is Yahoo or Kwallet. I can't seem to win on this. It is a known bug tho. I googled and it is being fixed, I assume for KDE 4 tho. Time to go pick okra. Dale :-) :-)
