Repositioning the KDE Brand (KDE.News)

No; you're evidently asking for Kopete not to use any libraries. That's not how software works.

What we're saying is that there is a development platform, workspaces and applications. The applications and workspaces use the dev platform, but applications and workspaces do not rely on each other.

As I explained above (the comment containing the example using Zypper) you can quite easily see this in action.

"I've found the patches to get the Yahoo login working for kopete 0.12.7, and I am using that now, thank you very much."

Great! :)

"The issue is that your announcement of decoupling is nothing more than basically meaningless marketing hogwash at this point."

The announcement is completely accurate. The decoupling talked about in the announcement is not at all what you are looking for (applications 'magically' using libraries they haven't been written for; in such a world the GIMP could use Qt and MS Office would run on Linux natively). From what we can gather from your previous comments you have some deep misconceptions about how things are put together within KDE's software. To be frank, that is something we do take part of the blame for: we have not been very clear in how we communicate "how things actually get put together" and so people end up with all sorts of odd ideas. This rebranding is one piece in the overall solution for that happening to people in the future.

But to reiterate: apps are not tied to the workspace; they are not tied to each other; they do depend on the development platform (which is the entire point of the dev platform, of course), but that is a relatively thin layer of libraries (relative to the bulk of applications above and software infrastructure below). This is exactly what the announcement tries to make clear, and this is exactly how it's been since at least KDE 3.0 if not even earlier. (IOW, this isn't even a "KDE4" thing)