IRC panels upen upon startup

[Billy Crook]

It is because of automated server response like these that I would
like to see a filter system in pidgin.  All incoming messages would go
through a regex table and if they match they would be acted upon:
 - Ignored
 - Passed on to the tabbed message window
 - Cause a script to execute

This could become a further abstraction of the Buddy Pounce system.
In this way, it would not be significantly more coding, and would keep
design simple.

On 9/30/07, John Bailey <rekkanoryo at rekkanoryo.org> wrote:
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> Kenneth G. Goutal wrote:
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> > Perhaps my expectations here are wrong.  Wouldn't be the first time.
> > But if that is so, it would be helpful to know why things are happening
> > the way they do.
> > Again, I really do understand that these messages are being sent to me
> > from the server,
> > not generated by Pidgin for mysterious reasons.
> > What is mysterious to me is why I'm getting connected to the server
> > whether or not, and before, I explicitly request to use that server.
>
> When you create an account in Pidgin, it by default takes on the current global
> status.  You probably are online in the global status, so Pidgin signed the IRC
> account on.  It is connected to the server but not joined to any channels, which
> is perfectly valid.  At this point, you could message other IRC users, or even
> add them to your buddy list (which Pidgin fakes due to lack of such a concept in
> IRC), in a similar manner to using any regular IM protocol.  Note also that if
> the IRC account were to be disabled and therefore signed off, the channels on
> your buddy list would disappear.
>
> > If, for instance, I were logged in on a UNIX box, and I ran
> > "/usr/local/bin/irc",
> > it will happily (well, maybe grudgingly) start up without knowing ahead
> > of time
> > which, if any, server to connect to.  It just sits there until I give it
> > a command
> > telling which server to connect to.
>
> Pidgin is not a "standard" IRC client, thus it acts differently.
>
> John
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