A blog about someones first time with a Linux desktop which mentions Pidgin
Phil Hannent
phil at hannent.co.uk
Tue Apr 29 11:22:10 EDT 2008
Ethan Blanton wrote:
> Felipe Contreras spake unto us the following wisdom:
>> 2008/4/29 Phil Hannent <phil at hannent.co.uk>:
>>> This blog entry is about a guy that got his girlfriend to try out ubuntu
>>> 8.04 from a fresh install. He gave her a set list of tasks to complete and
>>> task eleven was to logon to MSN. She used Pidgin but seemed to have a
>>> little trouble with the add account screen (expecting add to create a new
>>> account):
>
> Some of the points in this post are things we have discussed several
> times; for example, the text prompt in the buddy list and the open add
> account dialog on startup with no configuration came from such
> discussions. We aren't sure how to "fix" some of the problems, though
> -- for example, the confusion about multiple protocols in the add
> account dialog. A multiprotocol messenger just has multiple
> protocols, and there's not a lot we can do about it. We might be able
> to make it "friendlier" (quotes intentional) by changing to a
> wizard-style addition, but only at the expense of annoying a large
> portion of our userbase (including most of the developers) who
> *expect* Pidgin to me multiprotocol. This part is tough.
Looking at the screenshot from the blog I can see that the window manager kind
of obscures that fact that the combo box is a combo box, it looks more static
than something I have to select. The way around it would be to switch to a list
view or radio buttons, neither of which I like.
Regards
Phil Hannent
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