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About a year ago I wrote about QQ with Kopete. It didn't work at that time and it does not work now. As I switched to OpenSolaris and KDE is not really usable here, I switched to Gnome, too. And so I switched to Pidgin, too.

I miss some Kopete features, but other things work better in Pidgin. Sadly I QQ is not one of them. So QQ is neither working in Kopete nor in Pidgin. Is there any working open implementation of a chat client for QQ out there?

I understand that even Chinese people are using MSN/WLM for foreign contacts, but is open source unimportant in China? All of them Windows User?

Today I tried to make the QQ protocol in Kopete under KDE 4.2 work. As I saw it, it has been ported from evaq some time ago. evaq stopped development in 2006! Since then Tencent stopped supporting different protocol versions. So the Tencent networks complains of a too old client version when Kopete tries to connect. A bug of this is already filed in November, but it's not even confirmed, yet. There is even a bug filed in June what IMHO tells a different part of the same story. This bug isn't confirmed, either.

Today I pulled the svn version of evaq and tried to port the QQ 2006 code to connect to the network. I had some success as the error message for a too old client disappeared. But I couldn't get a real connection to QQ. I guess there is some work to do on this plugin. But I'm not experienced in KDE programming.

Pidgin somehow had some luck to find a maintainer who cares and its QQ implementation is still working. Unfortunately it isn't just copy & paste from Pidgin to Kopete.

Where are all those Chinese people around there? Nobody using KDE? Nobody caring about QQ and Kopete?