Infopane Issues

[Michael]

What about bringing the status icon back into the tab?

Also, it seems that now there will be no way to see the buddy icon
without a huge wasted (imho/in my usage) space.  Any chance this will
change?

Sean Egan wrote:
>> If we were to make the infopane optional (which I think we should),
>
> It will be optional using the "show buddy icon" preference, renamed to
> something understandable.