Compiz is certainly an interesting wm. After 4 days of testing (since your comment) with metacity, I've come to the conclusion that you have a point (i.e. that compiz is an issue).
Under metacity, when I click a tab or hit a conversation menu I get a pause of 1.5 seconds + before the operation completes (if it completes). Under metacity, pidgin is recovering 95% of the time after the pause. So I think you are definately correct that compiz is having a deleterious effect on pidgin, causing a mere bathing in oil to be fatal. The change to metacity also reduced the number of crashes caused by changing avatar by over half. That said, to receive a 1.5 second + pause in a GUI on a Dual Core T7400 when the system is under no load and to have nothing happen after that pause, repeatedly, indicates an issue with the design. That gui events appear to hit a libpurple event loop, before there is any indication of what is going on (if anything), is problematic for the user: at least if that user is me with a high latency network connection. The fact that I'm pleased that the switch to metacity has reduced the extremely high crash rate to something approaching usable is maybe an indication of the state of pidgin. I've also been testing out empathy. It's simple but it's responsive. I would hope that for the next LTS, pidgin is a distant memory, and one of the upcoming telepathy clients is the default. -- Pidgin is too unstable to be the default IM client for Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/149514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
