[dkim] Re: re-enabling? Feature request

[David Balažic]

Pidgin could simpy detect user activity (which it already does) and then login. Simple.


David Balažic
Software Engineer
www.comtrade.com



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From: support-bounces at pidgin.im [mailto:support-bounces at pidgin.im] On Behalf Of William Morris
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 5:22 PM
To: support at pidgin.im
Subject: [dkim] Re: re-enabling? Feature request

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<mailto: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.

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