Kopete does not show chat history

[Gavin Hamill]

Hi, since installing hoary (kopete now at 3.4.0-0ubuntu2.1) I have
never been able to get the History plugin to function.

In Settings -> Configure Plugins, I have 'History' enabled,
however there are no logs written
to .kde/share/apps/kopete/logs/XXXProtocol as my other machine on
Debian with KDE 3.3 does.

Furthermore there are no context menu entries for each contact to
'View History'.

[Gavin Hamill (gdh)]

Any progress on this? I've just upgraded to breezy and still no logging takes place :(

[P (p92)]

it works here for me.

try kopete on a fresh unix user first. it is known that kde upgrades sometimes need the application configuration file
in .kde/share/config to be deleted and recreated by the new application.

So if it works on a fresh user, then :
stop kopete
save the file .kde/share/config/kopeterc somewhere else
delete all *kopete* in .kde/share/config
restart kopete and configure it all again

[Gavin Hamill (gdh)]

No such luck - creating a new user and configuring just one protocol
caused nothing to be written to .kde/share/apps/kopete/ (the
'History' plugin is enabled)

More immediately, there is still no mention of the 'View History'
functions on the menus.

I've checked and I definately have kopete version 3.4.2-0ubuntu2 :/

[Gavin Hamill (gdh)]

OK a mixture of news on this. Once again I removed ~/.kde/share/config/kopeterc and
~/.kde/share/apps/kopete and started afresh.

I configured a single protocol, and messaged a friend. No logs were kept.

I went to Settings -> Configure Plugins, noticed that the 'History' Plugin was already enabled.
I DISABLED it, pressed Apply, and ENABLED it again, and pressed Apply, then OK.

Now when I right-click a contact I see the 'View History' context menu item. I closed the
existing any chat windows and reopen them. Now logs *ARE* kept in OK a mixture of news on this.
Once again I removed ~/.kde/share/config/kopeterc and
~/.kde/share/apps/kopete and started afresh.

I configured a single protocol, and messaged a friend. No logs were kept.

I went to Settings -> Configure Plugins, noticed that the 'History' Plugin was already enabled.
I DISABLED it, pressed Apply, and ENABLED it again, and pressed Apply, then OK.

Now when I right-click a contact I see the 'View History' context menu item. I closed the
existing any chat windows and reopen them. Now logs *ARE* kept in
~/.kde/share/apps/kopete/logs/NNNProtocol/

I shouldn't need to disable + reenable the plugin :)

Also, if I repeat the 'disable/enable' procedure, I get MULTIPLE 'View History' entries on the
context menu, and only one of them actually does anything.

[P (p92)]

humm nice experiments :)
I think you can open a bug upstream on KDE using Help -> report bug in the kopete main window

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

Seems to be fixed in kubuntu dapper, kde 3.5.2, kopete 0.11.1

Please reopen this bug if this is not the case on your system.