Feature request for Pidgin: aMSN style login

Dave Warren lists at hireahit.com
Mon Apr 5 15:46:16 EDT 2010


On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:33:31 +0200, Actiu informatica
<informatica at actiu.net> was claimed to have wrote:

>I'm installing Instant Messengers in cibercafes, and there is a lot of
>problems around this kind of software with the common users: the
>different usability as propietary software for MSWindows.
>
>Could have Pidgin an option/plugin/skin to show as first and single
>window, a simple login form for the [Email] and [Password], and detect
>by the domain name (@hotmail, @yahoo, etc.) the protocol to be used?

I'm not sure this would be as useful as you're hoping, MSN, AIM, XMPP
(including Google Talk) all have no particular requirement to use one
domain.

Worse, Yahoo and AIM don't require a domain at all.




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