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List:       kopete-devel
Subject:    Re: [Kopete-devel] BUGS (do you hate me yet martijn ?)
From:       Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <duncan () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-05-31 12:59:03
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I have a patch 70% finished for this, I will finish it in a few hours, it is 9 
am here and I havent go bed yet...

cheers
Duncan

El Thursday 30 May 2002 17:34, Martijn Klingens escribió:
> On Thursday 30 May 2002 23:17, Andres Krapf wrote:
> >     - reproducible crash, caused by msn deleting contacts (or so i think)
> > go online with msn, open a chatwindow, go offline, talk to the guy. boom.
> > i don't know if the fix should go in msn or in libkopete.
> >     [Unassigned] [Pending]
>
> Grmbll, I knew this one would blow one time or another, I just hoped it
> wouldn't in the release...
>
> As you're perfectly right, MSN deletes all contacts when going offline. KMM
> is left with a dangling pointer. Why do you think I came back to your
> original idea of using a QString contactId() instead of a pointer in KMM?
> :-)
>
> I would like a temporary fix in libkopete, because a fix in MSN would
> require a *LOT* of reworking and I wanted to address the problem in 0.5 by
> redoing the contact list completely. Not a good incentive to start hacking
> around MSN I'd say...
>
> If a contact is deleted the associated QListViewItem is removed as well, so
> apparently libkopete knows about the deletion. At this point KMM should be
> notified and remove any occurences of the KopeteContact from its list.
>
> And I won't code this today, I'm going to bed a bit earlier (read: after
> hitting 'Send')...
>
> Martijn
>
> PS: As MSN deletes contacts most often you probably see the problem there
> most. But when deleting a contact from your contact list with an active
> chat you would see the same problem. Another reason to fix this in
> libkopete...
>
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