Pidgin feature request: Error notification in system tray icon?

Spongebob Schwammkopf spongebobschwammkopf33 at yahoo.de
Wed Oct 26 13:10:30 EDT 2011


Hey Pidgin Support,

after running into the same problem multiple times by now (the last time 
caused severe trouble with my girlfriend...) I do request a feature:
I am one of those guys that do not save their passwords and type them 
every time they log in. Every once in a while I mistype the password, 
but Pidgin behaves like everything went fine (the login window 
disappeares, leaving only the usual "green light" icon in the tray). 
After several hours of wondering how nobody would write to me, I open up 
the buddy list (it usually starts minimized) and detect the problem: 
mistyped password.

Because error message boxes are somewhat ugly: why not put something 
like a red 'X' as the system tray icon or show a notification right 
inside the login window if the login failed?


Greetings,

a pidgin user




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