re-enabling? Feature request

[Tres Finocchiaro]

William,

What triggers Yahoo to auto login at work? Is it aware of the signoff
elsewhere?

This functionality would require Pidgin to get your account  status without
actually being "signed in", which is a bit unconventional to its default
behavior when signed off.

The  developers have done a lot to make it transparent as to the protocol
being used, and this list gets many many many absurd requests, so when the
default behavior is questioned, it can cause some unnecessary sarcasm to
the emailer.  (i.e. oracle employees email this list weekly for password
resets).

Since this is an open project, you agree free to file an enhancement
request from the bug tracker on the main site.  It requires registration
and you can add/update/subscribe to it.

Since the tracker is public, others may find it through searching and give
it more attention.

-Tres

On Mar 2, 2013 11:22 AM, "William Morris" <billthetailor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, you're missing something. Apparently you've never learned how to
> think things through.
>
> That's a whole lot of sarcastic (and dare I say, unnecessary and
> unhelpful) copying and pasting; you made your point after the first one. Do
> you suppose I would request the feature if that's actually how it worked?
>
> The auto-login happens only on start-up. If I leave a computer running at
> both work and home and want to switch between them, then, yes, I have to go
> through the step of actively taking control at that location. Since the
> home computer is off while at the office, but the office is on 24/7, your
> scenario as written is not applicable.
>
> Go back to vo-tech, junior, and learn how to function in the real world.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Dave Warren <lists at hireahit.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2/27/2013 07:44, William Morris wrote:
>>
>>> I use Pidgin both at home and at the office. When I log on after being
>>> on at either place, I have to re-enable the account. Stupid, really, just a
>>> single click, but bothersome all the same. I would really love it if Pidgin
>>> would just connect and move on - Yahoo! Messenger does this, and it's
>>> really the only feature I miss.
>>>
>>
>> Assuming that Yahoo doesn't allow multiple clients to connect at once,
>> what would you expect to happen when you leave pidgin connected at the
>> office and then login at home?
>>
>> I'd guess that what would happen would be this: Your pidgin at home would
>> connect, and it would disconnect you at your office. Next, your pidgin at
>> the office would connect, and it would disconnect you at home. Your pidgin
>> at home would connect, and it would disconnect you at your office. Next,
>> your pidgin at the office would connect, and it would disconnect you at
>> home. Your pidgin at home would connect, and it would disconnect you at
>> your office. Next, your pidgin at the office would connect, and it would
>> disconnect you at home. Your pidgin at home would connect, and it would
>> disconnect you at your office. Next, your pidgin at the office would
>> connect, and it would disconnect you at home. Your pidgin at home would
>> connect, and it would disconnect you at your office. Next, your pidgin at
>> the office would connect, and it would disconnect you at home. Your pidgin
>> at home would connect, and it would disconnect you at your office. Next,
>> your pidgin at the office would connect, and it would disconnect you at
>> home.
>>
>> Then Yahoo would disable your entire account for abuse, and you'd be back
>> here, wondering why that happened.
>>
>> Am I missing something about how your change would work?
>>
>> Speaking as a user, I'd rather you learn to log off so that if I try to
>> IM you a few minutes before you get into the office, I know that you're not
>> online, rather than wondering why you aren't responding to my IM for hours.
>> But that's just me.
>>
>> --
>> Dave Warren
>> http://www.hireahit.com/
>> http://ca.linkedin.com/in/**davejwarren<http://ca.linkedin.com/in/davejwarren>
>>
>>
>
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