[Cabal] [Gaim-cabal] Status icons again

[Sean Egan]

On 1/26/07, Luke Schierer <lschiere at users.sf.net> wrote:
> This is a general problem.  The protocol information has been lost
> entirely for all buddies.  Thus reordering my contacts to set priority
> is a real pain.  I have to wait for the tooltip for each, drag one
> around, hope it dragged correctly (it sometimes doesn't), check with the
> tooltip.  Rinse and repeat for each buddy I want to move. I don't like
> this.

That's a somewhat valid point... Maybe we do "when a Person is
expanded, show protocol icons in the emblem column.

> I have often argued with people who wanted to replace the protocol icon
> with the buddy icon that the protocol icon provides information.  Using
> gaim in this way is bearing out the validity of that argument.

You should switch to my argument against it, that the buddy icon needs
to be in its own column if you want to effectively scan them.

-s.