redundant UI
Par Benoît Dejean le vendredi, 10 août 2007, 09:48 - GNOME - Lien permanent
I don't think i have a bad memory, but even if i had memory like a goldfish, i would still be able to use pidgin :

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Par Benoît Dejean le vendredi, 10 août 2007, 09:48 - GNOME - Lien permanent
I don't think i have a bad memory, but even if i had memory like a goldfish, i would still be able to use pidgin :

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yeah, you're right. that's the first thing i thought using pidgin!
yeah, the new pidging kicks ass in this respect
and quite a lot of green balls also, eh?
I felt exactly the same when trying it yesterday.
You can turn off the second one in the preferences but then you lose the buddy icon...
xchat-gnome merges consecutive messages from the same contact if they are close enough in time. This is a simple but space-saving feature.
Funny, I made a similar screenshot earlier this week too!
http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/2007/pid...
I was thinking the same thing as well.
I wrote a post in ubuntuforums about the new Pidgin:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.ph...
I don't like the way pidgin is "evolving".
I find it quite useful but am surprised this feature is turned on by default without an option to turn it off. The feature is useful when you have several screennames grouped under 1 alias for a person. Under that case, the top name shows the alias, while the bottom one shows the screenname. It's useful in the case, but not in others so they should really have an option to turn it off.
Maybe you should try using Aliases and Metacontacts, then you would understand the purpose of this
I found this useless at first, and I admit it does take up some screen real estate, but I use aliases and some people have multiple screennames so I can identify if I'm talking to someone at work or home.
This has been the topic of quite some debate, recently! I mentioned it in a blog post (http://www.stevenbrown.ca/blog/arch...) and on the developer's mailing list, and the lead developer just did a post exclusively about the status icon in the tabs.
http://www.pidgin.im/~seanegan/cgi-...
It's getting better.