[OTR-dev] OTR & pidgin 2.6.1

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Tue Sep 1 20:12:49 EDT 2009


On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 05:34:51PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Ian Goldberg wrote:
>
>>> I tried to compile pidgin-otr with latest pidgin release.
>>> Compilation and loading went fine, module seems to be ok, but OTR conversation do not
>>> start at all - both automatically and manually.
>>> I haven't tried to look into details yet.
>>
>> So the OTR button and menus show up, but choosing "Start private
>> conversation" does nothing?
>
> I have noticed this too. However, using the "opportunistic" setting
> and just typing test seems to trigger OTR still.
>
> I thought it was the 4.0.0 pre release code that was to blame. Perhaps
> not :)

So that's weird; we've had other reports that it works just fine.
Can you compare notes?

   - Ian



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