Two typing notifications don't make sense. What do you think?

[Tristan McLeay]

On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:18:18 -0500, Etan Reisner wrote:

> Lastly, what about the current system do you feel is 'noisy'? Is there
> something about it which could be changed which would mitigate your
> dislike for it (other than removing it)?

I have to agree with the people who describe it as distracting. It makes 
the text bounce around, takes up a lot of space, and appears where you 
expect the conversation to go. I find myself looking at it much too 
often. I much preferred the old method with the typing notification in 
the menubar (I disable tabs): that way, I only knew if someone was typing 
if I specifically went out and looked for that information. I can't see 
any way to mitigate my dislike for this new behavior as long as the 
message necessarily interrupts the important parts of the conversation 
window, being what I'm saying and what someone else has said. Typing when 
there's a message there saying "(user) is typing..." also makes it feel 
like you're interrupting them.

Is there any posibility of making this an option? I simply don't use 
Pidgin to be informed that someone might be about to send me a message.

--
Tristan.