"Update" feature in Pidgin?

Brian Morrison bdm at fenrir.org.uk
Tue Jan 12 11:56:54 EST 2010


On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:04:22 -0600
Programmer In Training <pit at joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> wrote:

> On 1/12/2010 9:22 AM, Brian Morrison wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:13:52 +0100
> > "David Balazic" <David.Balazic at hermes-softlab.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>>> is there an Updatefeature in Pidgin?
> >>>
> >>> Yes, you want the Release Notification plugin.
[snip]
> > It notifies you and when the button is clicked takes you to the
> > Pidgin home page so you can click on "Download Pidgin x.x.x for
> > <your OS>".
> > 
> 
> When it works. I had mine enabled and got no such update.
> 

My experience is that it normally fires when you go from offline to
online, even if Pidgin was already running. YMMV I suppose.

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Brian Morrison




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