Newbie Questions

[Luke Schierer]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:16:31PM +0200, Marc Mühlfeld wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to Pidgin and I have some questions:
> 
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> * Is it a bug, but when I start the program, it shows me, that there are five MSN authorisation requests. I reject them, but after the next restart the same requests ll be shown to me again

Yes, it is.  Unless you are frequently using some other client. 

> 
> * Is there a way to sort buddies by account? I have different accounts for private and business use and it would be easier for me to see, which buddy belongs to which account.
> 

There is not, but a plugin could add it.  

> * I added a yahoo chatroom to my pidgin. But I can't enter it. Nothing happens. Anything wrong? Or is it a bug?

Sounds like a bug. 

> 
> * I found inside the settings a option for setting a default format for my messages. Is there a way to set the color of the oposite user too? Sometimes users decite it's nice to have black text on dark blue background, what is terrible to read. Or they have huge font sizes.

You can tell it to ignore incoming formatting.  

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> * Is there a way to set a sound for authorisation requests? Sometimes I get and it would be sad if I just can see this inside the pidgin main window.

This is not currently possible.

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> * Is there a way to set up a different kind of logfiles? Currently it seams that every time I close a chat window, a new logfile is created. It would be helpfull, if there is a mode where all messages are tracked into one file until Pidgin is closed.

A plugin could do this.

luke