Enable/disable logging on a contact-by-contact basis?

[Evgeny Potashnik]

Thanks very much for the quick replies, guys. I've raised this as ticket
#4547. I am a programmer, but I wouldn't be able to work on this just now
and besides, your workaround works just fine.

Evgeny


On 03/01/2008, Sadrul Habib Chowdhury <imadil at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> * Richard Laager had this to say on [02 Jan 2008, 14:22:27 -0600]:
> > On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 09:54 +1100, Evgeny Potashnik wrote:
> > > I'm a new user of Pidgin and I've got a newbie question. I would like
> > > to enable logging by default, but some people object to being logged,
> > > so I want to disable logging for a few specific contacts. I know that
> > > I can uncheck Options, Enable Logging in a chat window, but Pidgin
> > > "forgets" that the next time I open a chat with the same contact. Is
> > > there any way to store this setting permanently?
> >
> > I wouldn't be opposed to a patch that saves this setting on the contact
> > level.
>
> For anyone interested in implementing it: look at how pidgin remembers
> 'Options -> Enable Sounds' setting.
>
> > I would really like it to show a message in the window when the
> > conversation is opened if the setting differs from the default. In other
> > words, something like, "This conversation is [not] being logged."
>
> Perhaps we can also/instead have some icon (with appropriate tooltips)
> in the menu tray. I think it will also be pretty cool if someone could
> figure out a way to add such semi-random emblems in the infopane.
>
> Sadrul
>
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