Re: Suggestion for discussion: buddies and protocols

2016-08-27 Thread Dave Warren
It would be an interesting idea, but I suspect it would be confusing to non-pidgin users, and wouldn't really be much less confusing because the other devices/protocols would still receive a "You have a message pending" notification which could be trivially cleared, so the best that would (likely)

Re: Suggestion for discussion: buddies and protocols

2016-08-26 Thread A
I think an analogy would be ringing all the phones someone has, the one they pickup is the one that makes the connection and the others stop ringing. A minor adjustment to the below suggestion. Rather than sending the message to all devices which the receiver than may have to manually

Re: Suggestion for discussion: buddies and protocols

2016-08-26 Thread pidgin
Hello Robb, Allow me to amend my suggestions based on your feedback (and add some more) On 21-08-2016 19:13, Eion Robb wrote: I think generally the main concept has been that the idea of which protocol a contact is using is abstracted away, which is why by default you don't see the protocol

Re: Suggestion for discussion: buddies and protocols

2016-08-21 Thread Eion Robb
Hi Alex, A lot of interesting ideas there. I think generally the main concept has been that the idea of which protocol a contact is using is abstracted away, which is why by default you don't see the protocol icons - "hidden complexity" and all that. This has been achieved in Pidgin by the

Suggestion for discussion: buddies and protocols

2016-08-21 Thread pidgin
Hello, Pidgin is a great application but, in my humble opinion, there are several areas for improvement. Rather than just creating tickets, I wanted to run my ideas by the community and get your opinions and feedback, and since this mailing list is the closest thing to a 'community' that I