Pidgin 2.10.7 on Ubuntu Raring Ringtail 13.04

2013-05-17 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi, Is there a way to steal the focus in raring ringtail whenever someone contacts me in Pidgin IM Conversation Window. I do a ALT-TAB to look at the conversation window if someone has pinged me during which i miss most important conversation. Any suggestions please? Screenshot -> http://i.imgur.c

Re: Pidgin 2.10.7 on Ubuntu Raring Ringtail 13.04

2013-05-19 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to steal the focus in raring ringtail whenever someone > contacts me in Pidgin IM Conversation Window. I do a ALT-TAB to look at the > conversation window if someone has pinged me during which i miss most > important

Re: Pidgin 2.10.7 on Ubuntu Raring Ringtail 13.04

2013-05-20 Thread Tres Finocchiaro
Kaushal, The mailing list gets a lot of requests for better focus stealing during IM conversations. This is something that the older messengers were doing properly in the Windows 95 days. Our office uses Pidgin + Bonjour + Windows 8 for our internal office messaging and I still experience this b

Re: Pidgin 2.10.7 on Ubuntu Raring Ringtail 13.04

2013-05-20 Thread Ethan Blanton
Tres Finocchiaro spake unto us the following wisdom: > The mailing list gets a lot of requests for better focus stealing during IM > conversations. This is something that the older messengers were doing > properly in the Windows 95 days. The problem is that older messengers did this *im*properly,

RE: Pidgin 2.10.7 on Ubuntu Raring Ringtail 13.04

2013-05-21 Thread David Balažic
0, 2013 8:01 PM > To: Tres Finocchiaro > Cc: support@pidgin.im > Subject: Re: Pidgin 2.10.7 on Ubuntu Raring Ringtail 13.04 > > Tres Finocchiaro spake unto us the following wisdom: > > The mailing list gets a lot of requests for better focus > stealing during IM > >

Re: Pidgin 2.10.7 on Ubuntu Raring Ringtail 13.04

2013-05-21 Thread Paul
On 22/05/2013 00:39, David Balažic wrote: > There are people who actually _want_ focus stealing? > > Wow, at last I am on the winning side! My favourite is when you are typing in a password without looking and the IM window steals focus and you send the password to someone random. Perhaps that wo

Re: Pidgin 2.10.7 on Ubuntu Raring Ringtail 13.04

2013-05-21 Thread Tres Finocchiaro
> *There are people who actually _want_ focus stealing?* > There are times when this functionality is very useful. *IM window steals focus and you send the password to someone random.* :) -- - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com ___ Support@pidgin.im mailing

Re: Pidgin 2.10.7 on Ubuntu Raring Ringtail 13.04

2013-05-24 Thread Etan Reisner
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 04:17:40PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to steal the focus in raring ringtail whenever someone > contacts me in Pidgin IM Conversation Window. I do a ALT-TAB to look at the > conversation window if someone has pinged me during which i miss most > i