Help: Removed buddies are not deleted

2008-07-31 Thread Louise Hoffman
Dear readers When I right click on a buddy and select Remove, and the OK, the buddy can still write to me. How do I delete a buddy for good? =) Lots of love, Louise ___ Support mailing list Support@pidgin.im

Re: Help: Removed buddies are not deleted

2008-07-31 Thread Evan Platt
You've removed the buddy, but for the most part that doesn't mean they can't write to you. You'd need to add them to your Blocked Buddy list. Tools, Privacy, add them in there, and change to the appropriate action, ie Block only the people below. Louise Hoffman wrote: Dear readers When I

Re: Help: Removed buddies are not deleted

2008-07-31 Thread Louise Hoffman
You've removed the buddy, but for the most part that doesn't mean they can't write to you. You'd need to add them to your Blocked Buddy list. Tools, Privacy, add them in there, and change to the appropriate action, ie Block only the people below. So it is impossible to remove a buddy for

development

2008-07-31 Thread robert mcquirt
you mention the extremely long development time of pidgin is partly due to the fact that all your developers are not that interested in features such as video call/teleconferencing, etc. i'd just like to point out that if you are to be a serious contender in the im market, their likes/dislikes

Re: Help: Removed buddies are not deleted

2008-07-31 Thread Evan Platt
Unless I'm mistaken - yes. You ARE essentially removing them. The point of most chat protocols is to allow anyone to contact you - ie if I knew your screen name, I could message you. So if you don't want someone to contact you, you are blocking them, or basically 'removing' them. Same thing.

Re: Help: Removed buddies are not deleted

2008-07-31 Thread Louise Hoffman
Can you check your privacy settings? On the buddy list, select the Tools menu then Privacy From that screen you can define who can contact you or not. It just wonders me, because in Microsoft's MSN for Windows, it is possible to delete a buddy. Or that is atleast how it looks in Pidgin.

Re: development

2008-07-31 Thread Stu Tomlinson
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 06:42 -0700, robert mcquirt wrote: you mention the extremely long development time of pidgin is partly due to the fact that all your developers are not that interested in features such as video call/teleconferencing, etc. i'd just like to point out that if you are to be a

Re: development

2008-07-31 Thread Phil Hannent
robert mcquirt wrote: you mention the extremely long development time of pidgin is partly due to the fact that all your developers are not that interested in features such as video call/teleconferencing, etc. i'd just like to point out that if you are to be a serious contender in the im

Re: Google Talk doesn't appear to work?

2008-07-31 Thread Evan Platt
Thanks John and all.. I installed Google Talk, and then my coworker got the invite, and was added. Closed google talk, and then he appeard in Pidgin. Odd Thanks again. Evan John Moore 3rd wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Evan Platt wrote: I added the

Re: development

2008-07-31 Thread Brian Morrison
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:42:04 -0700 (PDT) robert mcquirt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you mention the extremely long development time of pidgin is partly due to the fact that all your developers are not that interested in features such as video call/teleconferencing, etc. i'd just like to point

Modifying account status

2008-07-31 Thread Ally Blanco
Hi, I'm curious as to whether there is anything in the works for modifying the account status based on each account rather than as a whole. Currently I can set myself to be invisible among other statuses but I want to be able to specify which account I choose to be available, away, invisible,

Re: development

2008-07-31 Thread John Moore 3rd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Brian Morrison wrote: There speaks a man who cannot write a coherent, punctuated, properly laid out email. I'm sorry I had to quote it all to make it obvious. Let me know what your business is so that I can avoid it and recommend others do