I am enthralled with Pidgin but am annoyed by 2 things that seem to happen far too often. One minor & one major.
Pidgin 2.5.3 O/S: XP SP3 Minor Annoyance: Initial Start-Up When starting Pidgin it takes too much time. The view from Task Manager indicates that Pidgin goes through several 'Responding' & 'Not Responding' phases. :( Usually patience will prevail and ultimately Pidgin boots. From My personal logs I noticed this behavior /after/ installing the Skype Plug-In. I can ameliorate this Start-Up hassle if I remember to Open Skype _before_ Opening Pidgin. Because I use both Google Talk with My Gmail Account & with a Google Apps Domain I have resigned Myself to the 'Certificate Acceptance' confusion. :-\ Major Annoyance: accounts.xml suffers a lobotomy several times a year. :( I have not been able to track the source of this intensely aggravating circumstance but every 2-3 months I Open Pidgin and am greeted with the 'Welcome to Pidgin' screen inviting Me to configure Accounts. Arrugh!!! Everything was configured and running smoothly the night before when I closed Pidgin normally. No Warning, just all the data in accounts.xml has vanished. :-\ The most irritating aspect of this is that even when all 8 Accounts have been re-enter manually the settings related to combining Buddies using 'Expand' is lost too. Also lost are the assigned aliases which is a large hassle when ICQ Contacts are suddenly represented by their ICQ # and not their Name. The other thing that must be reconfigured are the IRC Channels that were configured to 'Auto-Join'. I know this can be 'solved' by remembering to manually maintain a Copy of accounts.xml in another location on the computer; but invariably when this error happens it isn't with a recent back-up available. Has anyone ascertained what causes this data loss? Other than the above 2 items I have Zero complaints with Pidgin. The Application is extremely versatile, stable and customizable. The Support ranks among the very best I have experienced with any Application. Any suggestions to mitigate the 2 annoyances above will be much appreciated. JOHN 8-) Timestamp: Sunday 04 Jan 2009, 13:46 --500 (Eastern Standard Time)
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