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alanmies

Member

From: Manchester, Finland

Registered: 2004-12-04

Posts: 23

Kopete MSN support

I updated Kopete earlier today at work - after the update, the MSN icon in chat disappeared, but I figured this was just an issue with linking or something similar, the existing chat I had worked fine. But now I turned the laptop back on again here at home and the MSN account is gone. As a matter of fact, so is the ability to add an MSN account when configuring Kopete. Am I missing a dependency or did they just permanently remove the feature?

runical

Member

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2012-03-03

Posts: 896

Re: Kopete MSN support

I just checked, and indeed, it is missing. However, I wouldn't be surprised if they removed MSN/windows live support. The service was discontinued quite a while ago in favor of skype as far as I know. I don't think you are missing a dependency to be honest, as the protocol is coded into the application. If they really discontinued MSN support, you should be able to find that on the website.

You can also switch to Telepathy, which has support for al kinds of protocols. (KDE telepathy is quite nice)

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Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: Kopete MSN support

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40650

alanmies

Member

From: Manchester, Finland

Registered: 2004-12-04

Posts: 23

Re: Kopete MSN support

Yes, there were talks that they'd close the service for good - however, as of like a few hours ago, it worked fine.

JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: Kopete MSN support

I'm still using Pidgin with MSN, so they haven't closed it down completely. Removing libmsn dependency (and so MSN support) is a regression in my eyes.