interesting suggestion, I never considered it. Is the .purple directory transferable between OS's? Ex. Linux to Windows? You do make a good point about security, thanks for bringing that up. It's easy to forget sometimes.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Ethan Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris Hall spake unto us the following wisdom: > > I was looking into Pidgin, and thinking of going back to it. It's been a > > couple years. I've been using Digsby. One of the features I've really > > fallen in love with from them is the single sign on feature.. > essentially, > > when you install Digsby, you sign on with your "digsby" account. All of > > your saved account info, settings, themes, etc are then downloaded to the > > new machine you are using, and there's no need to go about setting up > > yahoo, ICQ, MSN, AOL, Facebook, GTalk, jabber, etc.. it's all ready to > go. > > This is really useful for me as I have 3 - 4 machines I can float > between. > > Sometimes I'll find myself temp. using a new machine. Setting up all > > those IM accounts again and again becomes a royal pain. At any rate, I > was > > wondering if Pidgin had a feature similar to this. If not, is it in the > > works, or could it be suggested as a feature in upcoming releases? > > Pidgin has no such feature. In order to accomplish this, you are > sending all of your account information to Digsby servers, where they > are storing it. Leaving aside the obvious security implications of > this, we have no desire to maintain services. Pidgin is not a > commercial venture and has no incentive or structure in place to do > so. We don't want to be responsible for either your data or your > privacy. Apparently Digsby does(?). > > You can copy your .purple directory from machine to machine, which may > do what you want. > > Ethan > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEVAwUBT2NM5v8fixZ3H8crAQhKvggAhVwrUdm4Gw1srmNY+nSB0a4b8nyPMYDY > V3L9mPWhRNZmYgLv16GfS/Lv7xWnEge0h+Kzlbe8mCyMBmlwHjrUO1R2gFZaR5Vv > CFI+xt/VDCDon04DoXByLVGTCcL3a0r32ExM6vkHYDHz6S4QWw/SMUFrveUo6g2w > dlDRIi9XI6EmvLyrnLAyY6nA73uKKsOZCr5FIx4bJPW11DlwhzV/vEq7XGpEqzca > phZpSKqH2LNBaN9msi59F1uo4s4Ma2CZPSpg0/2+j5cQ+jNPsVY7UmKgQTcacHvg > QJLRjdpweiILWf9c6Zei+YxBMSmeEIOgvrGBOr6oMMfSy4x1fIa0Kg== > =xaja > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
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