> Without the Pidgin status icon, you must have the buddy list always > opened, which is an obvious lack of ergonomy.
Or minimized...or shaded... > Moreover, we are talking about Pidgin, but... what about any other IM? > What about aMSN, Emesene, Gajim, Skype or Ekiga? Are all these programs > wrong? Are all they need to be fixed in order to not having a status > icon by default? According to the HIG, yes, they're all behaving wrong. > > IMHO, this is not the right direction. We can't expect to be able to > replace the docking feature of all the present and future IM > applications with only one applet (FUSA). IMHO, we must to stay, think > and reconsider what's the FUSA status change usefulness. If the problem > is only about icon duplicity, we propose to remove the FUSA status icon > (see > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/273220/comments/9 > for more details). The trouble with removing it for *some* apps and not for others (as suggested there) is that it'd create inconsistency. > By the way: I'm using both Pidgin and aMSN at the same time. When I > change my status using FUSA, aMSN is not affected. What IM applications > are affected by the FUSA status change? At the moment, Pidgin and Empathy. Right now, I'm thinking the best situation would be: 1. FUSA doesn't control presence 2. Create a standard API for IM status 3. All IM applications implement the API 4. 1 panel applet for GNOME, 1 for KDE that changes status for all apps that use the standard API. And then that could have a "Buddy List Visible" checkbox in its right-click menu Would that be a good way to resolve keeping things out of the notification area that aren't notifications while adding cross-app consistency? -- Pidgin should default to "Show system tray icon: On unread messages" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290552 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
