[OTR-users] Gaim 2b6 and OTR Breakage

[Torrey McMahon]

Brian Morrison wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:25:39 -0500
> Torrey McMahon <tmcmahon2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Howdy.
>>
>> Just installed gaim 2b6 on my windows xp box. Two things seem to be 
>> broken ala OTR
>>
>> 1) The protocol name for AOL has changed from prpl-oscar to prpl-aim. 
>> The account prefs get changed but the otr key file doesn't. All you have 
>> to do is edit the string to say prpl-aim instead of prpl-oscar and all 
>> is well.
>>
>> 2) This is worse: The OTR icon has disappeared. This makes it impossible 
>> to verify new fingerprints, end conversations, etc. (Unless there is a 
>> menu for this I can't find.)
>>     
>
> Amazing, they've managed to break the API *again* within a beta series.
>
> Makes you wonder what they've done *this* time....

I've made suggestions to the gaim folks along the lines of what alpha 
and beta should be but ... no luck.