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Quoted Originally posted by cylent I am very curious to know what IM program did you use to get your webcam working for them to see you in Yahoo Messenger? Cylent, I am using Kopete which is why it is in the subject line like so: [Kopete] and in my post I stated: "My yahoo friends are able to view my webcam with no problem and I can view theirs." Kopete is an IM and chat client in KDE.

blackmorph, This option will not be available until KDE version 4. After visiting #kopete on freenode and asking the question and being told it is a "lame" question and not needed I did some searching and found these two articles: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57234 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63839 So hang tight, it's coming!

The lack of an "Ignore messages from people NOT on your contact list" is one of the reasons I dropped Kopete for Gaim. The only reason I have returned to Kopete is for the webcam support. Rinse, if Kopete has this option for the other protocols other than ICQ, then where is it because I can not find it. Where is the ignore feature in Kopete for Yahoo, Aim, and MSN to prevent receiving messages from users NOT on your contact list? Thanks.

I think it would be helpful if there was a running thread of webcams that are known to work with Kopete. This is my attempt. I bought the Creative! Live Webcam Notebook Pro with VF0250 in the serial number from Fry's on Saturday in the USA. It is $49.99 with a $30 mail in rebate, so only costs $20.00. It uses the gspca driver and supports v4l and v4l2. It installed very easily and I had the webcam working in under 5 minutes. My yahoo friends are able to view my webcam with no problem and I can v...