Pidgin 2.7.0 breaks Guifications

Aaron Leonard Aaron at cisco.com
Wed Jul 14 16:35:21 EDT 2010


Following up for the benefit of the list ... I decided to switch
to using Snarl, which is compatible with Pidgin 2.7, and which I find
to be more functional than Guifications anyway.  I'm using V40.15
(R2.21.)  http://www.fullphat.net/

Hth,

Aaron

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On 5/21/2010 3:33 PM, Aaron at Cisco.COM (Aaron Leonard) wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> As far as I know, this problem's not yet been reported (although I have
> only just now joined this list.)
> 
> The upgrade to Pidgin 2.7.0 has broken the Guifications new message
> "toaster" popups.  I.e. I have Guifications configured to pop up a
> message whenever I get a new message ... and it worked fine up through
> all 2.6 versions ... but with 2.7.0, Guifications pops up no longer.
> 
> This is *not* an instance of the "Flash window" bug
> (http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11842) ... I've got the pidgin.dll
> with that fix installed, and it does fix the icon flash problem ... but
> still no joy for Guifications.
> 
> Now, I see that developer.pidgin.im doesn't want us to file bugs against
> issues with plugins (although since the plugin worked in 2.6.6 but
> doesn't in 2.7.0, it seems likely that this is a bug in Pidgin.)  So
> shall I file a bug against Guifications?  (Not sure what's going on with
> Guifications ... it seems that there is some work in progress on a
> version 3, but not in the last several months?)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Aaron
> 




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