Fwd: [Pidgin] #552: Description disappeared from field bottom of the contacts list

[Travis Harris]

I agree that the behavior was confusing, could we maybe have two options

   1. Available
   2. Available (keep message)

or something like that?

God Bless,
     Travis Harris

On 5/2/07, Luke Schierer <lschiere at pidgin.im> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:49:36AM -0700, Sean Egan wrote:
> > deryni doesn't remember but recalls it being an "overwhelmingly
> > popular move." I think it was a dumb move. Discuss.
> >
> > -s.
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Pidgin <trac at pidgin.im>
> > Date: May 2, 2007 11:43 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Pidgin] #552: Description disappeared from field bottom
> > of the contacts list
> > To:
> > Cc: tracker at pidgin.im
> >
> >
> > #552: Description disappeared from field bottom of the contacts list
> >
> ---------------------------+------------------------------------------------
> >   Reporter:  adas          |       Owner:
> >       Type:  defect        |      Status:  new
> >   Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:
> >  Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0
> > Resolution:                |    Keywords:  status description
> >    Pending:  1             |
> >
> ---------------------------+------------------------------------------------
> > Comment (by seanegan):
> >
> >  deryni, his request is for the old behavior where, if I'm Available
> with a
> >  status message, and change the state to Away, it keeps the message in
> the
> >  box, highlights it and gives it keyboard focus.
> >
> >  I really liked this too. Who removed it, and why?
> >
>
> One of the frequent complaints with the early betas was that you could
> not return from away.  In tracing this, we discovered that people
> actually could and were returning from away, they were confused by the
> fact that the status message was preserved.  changing this behavior
> fixed this "bug" for significant numbers of users.
>
> luke
>
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