Original von Decibels
I love kde for the desktop and that is mainly all I use, but kopete seems to need a major rework.
Have your tried GAIM. It works much better. I find it easier to use and much easier to setup?
Well, kopete is a pretty young app compared to GAIM or licq. IMHO it made tremendous progress. But nevertheless it's version number is still < 1.0. So problems and instabilities are not that surprising to me.
But I have to say it's working for me. I only use ICQ and IRC though.
I find it surprising how big the user base already is. It's supposed to make its official debut with KDE 3.2. I expect it to be more stable when it's released along with KDE 3.2 because there will be additional effort to bring it into shape.
I think the good points about kopete are multi-protocol support and integration with the KDE addressbook. There's a lot of potential there.