Suggestion for discussion: cleaning up the plugins page

2016-09-04 Thread Alex Oren
There are multiple ways that the plugins page can be improved: 1. Removing the links that are no longer resolving. 2. Indicating outdated plugins that no longer work. 3. Indicating whether binary releases are available, or better yet, providing binaries for all plugins that do not have them

It's 2016, why are we still using mailing lists?

2016-10-08 Thread Alex Oren
Are there any compelling reasons not to use an internet forum? Their many advantages over mailing lists include: - Easier searching for existing solutions. - Fine-grained control over email notifications. - The ability to display prominent explanation of what support can be expected.

Re: Problem with smileys on Hangouts

2016-11-02 Thread Alex Oren
On 02-11-2016 16:07, Eion Robb wrote: Hi Alex, Unfortunately the version of GTK we use on Windows versions of Pidgin isn't new enough to support emoji characters. As a workaround you can use one of the unicode emoji emote themes, eg https://github.com/stv0g/unicode-emoji or

Is steam down?

2016-11-03 Thread Alex Oren
Cannot connect to steam IM. Is it down? Log below: (00:00:00) steam: getting url /ISteamWebUserPresenceOAuth/Logon/v0001 (00:00:00) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for api.steampowered.com (00:00:00) dnsquery: IP resolved for api.steampowered.com (00:00:00) proxy: Attempting connection to

Problem with smileys on Hangouts

2016-11-01 Thread Alex Oren
Hello, I have a problem displaying smileys sent from Hangouts contacts, anything except the basic :) -- which is shown as displays as "tofu". I tried overriding the font used with Google's Noto but it didn't help. I am currently using the "Default-with-Skype" Smiley theme by Hylke Bons.

Is there support for the signal protocol?

2017-08-16 Thread Alex Oren
https://whispersystems.org/docs/ ___ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: https://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support

Re: No new message alert in Pidgin

2017-05-16 Thread Alex Oren
On 16-05-2017 01:34, Eion Robb wrote: libnotify is a linux-only thing, so no, there won't be any dll's :) I see. Thank you! ___ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: https://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support

Re: "Unable to validate certificate"

2018-01-09 Thread Alex Oren
On 2018-01-09 6:04 PM, Eion Robb wrote: Yes, we did that for the G2 intermediate cert as part of the windows installer.  For the G3 cert, we also need to add the Google Trust Services root CA to Pidgin (on top of the intermediate G3 cert) OK, found it: https://pki.goog/roots.pem

Re: "Unable to validate certificate"

2018-01-07 Thread Alex Oren
On 2018-01-07 3:36 PM, Eion Robb wrote: https://textslashplain.com/2017/10/23/google-internet-authority-g3/ has some info about the new Root CA and Intermediate CA certs that Google are rolling out.  On Pidgin on Windows we don't include the new "Google Trust Services" ca-cert, so it'll keep

Conversation badger plugin does not work with 2.13

2018-07-12 Thread Alex Oren
After I upgraded Pidgin to 2.13.0 on Windows 10, the Conversation Badger plugin (from guifications) stopped working. Any ideas? Thanks, Alex. ___ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link:

Assertions in 2.13.0

2018-07-13 Thread Alex Oren
I ran 2.1.13 on Windows with a debug log. Started, waited about a minute and closed it. There are several assertions in the log, some due to plugins: (00:32:12) plugins: C:\Program Files (x86)\Pidgin\plugins\libsametime.dll has a prefs_info, but is a prpl. This is no longer supported.

No popup notifications for Discord channels

2020-09-15 Thread Alex Oren
I am using the guifications plug-in on Windows to pop up a a notification when a buddy sends me a direct message, but I cannot make it work with Discord channels. Is there a way to make it work? Thank you! ___ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to

Unicode Emoji theme

2020-09-13 Thread Alex Oren
I made a Unicode Emoji theme based on the JoyPixels 6.0 icon set. See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/pidgin/comments/ievaq1/unicode_smiley_theme_based_on_joypixels_emojis/ Download from here: https://mega.nz/folder/Cl8xhBwY#VpEEanGyqGd_p780i8Scgw Installation instructions here:

Dummy protocol?

2020-06-13 Thread Alex Oren
I have old conversation logs from people I used to chat with on currently defunct protocols (Yahoo, etc.) Some of those people are no longer my contacts, but I still want to have those chat logs visible in Pidgin. Is there away to add them as "dummy" contacts so I can still view the logs but

Problems making a smiley theme

2020-07-25 Thread Alex Oren
I tried creating a smiley theme based on the JoyPixels emoji set. Unfortunately it does not seem to work. Some sequences do not get replaced, sometimes the ":" is replaced with an icon even though it is not in the theme (inconsistently), etc. I have uploaded the theme to mega (

Re: NWSChat

2021-11-15 Thread Alex Oren
Try one of the following: 1. Ctrl-Q from the main window 2. Menu: Buddies/Quit 3. Right click on the tray icon and select Quit On 2021-11-15 14:42, Brad Barton wrote: I have tried to update Pidgin by uninstalling, but my Windows10 Dell XPS laptop says Pidgin is still running and I must exit