problem with pidgin

Ankit Singla anksingla at gmail.com
Tue May 6 10:20:44 EDT 2008


Will Thompson wrote:
> The natural implementation for "quit, but only if new messages don't
> come in" that occurs to me is:
>
>  * note unread messages;
>  * call disconnect on everything;
>  * watch for new message signals;
>  * wait for disconnected signals from them all;
>  * check whether there have been new messages;
>    - if so, stick a big "reconnect me" button in the buddy list (or
>      somewhere explaining what's happened.
>    - if not, quit away.
>
> This seems much more straightforward than the "make a note of these
> messages so that the next time we start we can stick them back on the
> screen" method, and as Mark said is less confusing.
>   
The only reason I'd want the "make a note of these messages so that the 
next time we start we can stick them back on the screen" method is 
because of forced quits, for instance, pidgin crashes or windows update 
restarts my computer when I have IMs open.

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