Short Tip: Fixing ICQ login problem in KDE 3.5.9

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Today many Kopete users were faced with an error when they tried to login to the ICQ network. The reported error was that the ICQ version is too old. Bug #165502 describes the problem and Jan provides a workaround in a comment: add the following files to the file ~/.kde/share/config/kopeterc:

[ICQVersion]
Build=0x17AB
ClientId=0x010A
ClientString=ICQ Client
Country=us
Lang=en
Major=0x0006
Minor=0x0000
Other=0x00007535
Point=0x0000

There have been numerous reports that the fix works on current Kopete versions. Thanks for the fix, Jan!

Additionally the kopete team has updated a ICQ version file which is online and which kopete fetches automatically at startup. This should also fix the problem, without the need to edit or update anything!