On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Ileana <ile...@fairieunderground.info> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 23:29:31 -0400 > Daniel Atallah <datal...@pidgin.im> wrote: > >> > I correct myself. I would suggest a button in each account menu, >> > "Auto-connect when Pidgin starts up?" >> > >> > If it is not selected, Pidgin passes over the account, and makes no >> > network activity related to the account. >> > >> >> request that I think even non-privacy minded people would like this >> >> simple feature added. What is the workaround to disable >> >> autoconnect? >> >> You can choose a Startup Status in the preferences - if you set that >> to Offline, it won't connect on startup. >> >> There is also the -n argument that you can pass to the pidgin command >> to disable autologin for that instance. > > Ha! Thanks. Both of these issues I was dealing with/annoyed for some > time, and they were already there. > > However, I think other users also might expect to be able to put > "localhost" in the tor/privacy proxy settings, and may also have no > clue why its not working. Not sure if that is enhancement or bug, but > it was annoying for me. I can't think of any reason a user would want > dns for "localhost" to be proxied...
The string needs to somehow be converted to an IP address. I'm not sure how appropriate it would be to put a special case in for "localhost", that'd only be a partial solution and seems like an ugly hack. I'd be interested to know what other applications have done for this issue. -D _______________________________________________ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support