On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 08:02:09AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 23:24 +0300, Mohammed Sameer wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Mohammed Sameer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > * Package name : funpidgin > > Version : 2.4.1 > > Upstream Author : A lot. Can't be listed here! > > * URL : http://funpidgin.sourceforge.net > > * License : GPL > > Programming Lang: C > > Description : graphical multi-protocol instant messaging client based > > on pidgin > > > > Funpidgin is a graphical, modular Instant Messaging client capable of using > > AIM/ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, IRC, Jabber, Napster, Zephyr, Gadu-Gadu, Bonjour, > > Groupwise, Sametime, SILC, and SIMPLE all at once. > > It has all the features offered by pidgin plus: > > * "Entry area manual sizing" a plugin by that allows manual resizing of the > > entry area. > > * An option to set the size of the buddy icons displayed in the chat window. > > * An option to let the window manager place new windows. > > * Two different ways of seeing that your buddies are typing. > > * An optional send button for Tablet PC users. > > I know it's not Debian's responsibilty, but these changes really do not > seem worthy of a fork that adds another package to the archive, only > trivially different. > > Is there really no chance of these changes being done via a plugin, or > runtime option to pidgin itself?
I spoke to the developers and they said "And no, some of the things we're doing cannot be done practically with plugins.". and that they are intending to expand. -- GPG-Key: 0xA3FD0DF7 - 9F73 032E EAC9 F7AD 951F 280E CB66 8E29 A3FD 0DF7 Debian User and Developer. Homepage: www.foolab.org
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