Myself and kopete have always had this love/hate relationship. With my recent update to kde 4.4 our relationships took further nose dive when kopete refused to send my messages to my yahoo contacts even though i could receive messages from them.  Here is the bug report about the issue.

Recently I decided to fix things up  between me and kopete so rather than run to its gtk cousin (looking at pidgin) I sort to see if  I could resolve the problem. (after all its free and open source software we are talking about so there has got to be a way around the issue right?)

After a bit of googling I found that I am not alone (which is a good sign cause misery loves company)

From my readings it seem to be a problem with the libkyahoo library which is shipped with kde 4.4.  Some are suggesting that cause is the new stealth feature introduced in kde 4.4  and occurs only when there are many contacts in contacts list. (more…)