[OTR-users] Kopete and OTR

[Ian Goldberg]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 04:00:40AM +0000, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
> It's probably worth noting on the OTR website that the from KDE 4.1 onwards, 
> Kopete supports OTR 'out of the box'.  The list of OTR enable software still 
> refers to a the plugin as 3rd party, but is merged in the main KDE 
> distribution.

Thanks for the info!  I've updated the web site.

> Also I had this sent to me by a KDE dev when I reported a bug w.r.t lack of 
> OTR in Kopete for Windows:
> 
> 'I'm sorry but libotr depends so heavily on gtk libs that I'm unable to 
> compile it on windows - we then must build nearly all base gtk libs just for 
> this plugin.'
> 
> Is this really true?  That libotr depends on gtk?

As Paul pointed out, it is not true.  libotr compiles for Windows just
fine with no gtk involvement.

   - Ian