no more icq?
David Jansen
jansen at strw.leidenuniv.nl
Tue Jul 1 20:47:42 UTC 2008
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 10:19:03AM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> David Jansen wrote:
>> Today pidgin gave me an error when trying to connect to icq:
>> The client version you are using is too old. Please upgrade at
>> http://pidgin.im/
>> I'm running Fedora 9 fully updated, pidgin 2.4.2-1.fc9
>>
>> Searching for this message, it seems it's not just Fedora and not just
>> pidgin, but most/all Linux icq clients.
>> E.g http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=846279
>>
>> Does anyone know more of this issue? I guess I'll have to do without icq
>> for a while then....
>
> I've reported it to both Pidgin and KDE (kopete). They're all VERY
> aware of it (kopete has at least 220 reports of it).
>
> BTW, KDE does claim that the KDE4 version of Kopete works correctly.
> I can't confirm as I don't run F9/KDE4 (and won't until F9 gets a bit
> more stable).
Thanks for that information. Kopete from KDE 4.0 indeed works!
David
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