Don't change the setting in their settings, change it just for that session.
If option A doesn't work, you can't go wrong by trying option B. Especially when 99% of the users don't know/care about option B, and just want to go online. Whether or not my connection used "client login" is an implementation detail. As a user of your application I want to see it as a black box. Just press login and go, no fiddling with extraneous check boxes under advanced tabs. My 2 cents worth, Josh On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Michael Secord <gizmokid2...@gmail.com>wrote: > I'd have to say the reason to not do that...Why would you be automatically > be changing a users settings/preferences without their knowledge maybe? > Seems bad form. Though, it does make /logical/ sense to do that. > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: help > From: Evan Platt <e...@espphotography.com> > To: Josh Ribakoff <josh.ribak...@gmail.com>, Pidgin Mailing List < > support@pidgin.im> > Date: 2/10/2010 2:15 PM > > I don't know, you'd have to ask one of the developers. Certainly there's >> some logic where as easy as that sounds, it wouldn't work. (ie what >> comes to mind is maybe there's a reason you WOULDN'T want to uncheck use >> client login, and to automatically 'uncheck' it upon error would break >> some other functionality. >> >> On 2/10/2010 11:12 AM, Josh Ribakoff wrote: >> >>> Haha what is up with that? >>> >>> Why not add a feature that detects that and changed the "client login" >>> setting automatically? Surely then there would not be so many emails. >>> >>> if ( received unexpected oscar response ) { >>> // try again with that setting checked >>> } >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Evan Platt <e...@espphotography.com >>> <mailto:e...@espphotography.com>> wrote: >>> >>> On 2/10/2010 9:06 AM, Ethan Blanton wrote: >>> >>> As you are no doubt aware, Pidgin is open source software, and >>> we have >>> no dedicated support team. As such, if you choose to adopt >>> Pidgin for >>> your workplace, be prepared to provide support to your >>> employees. We >>> cannot and will not provide day-to-day tech support for running >>> Pidgin >>> to 70 desktops. >>> >>> >>> I can see it now, 70 e-mails from the same company in a period of 5 >>> minutes .. "Hi, I can't logon "Received unexpected response from >>> http://api.oscar.aol.com/aim/startOSCARSession" >>> >>> :) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Support@pidgin.im <mailto:Support@pidgin.im> mailing list >>> Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: >>> http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Support@pidgin.im mailing list >> Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: >> http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support >> >>
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