[Pidgin] #263: Sort by recent log size

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#263: Sort by recent log size
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 Reporter:  kaddar        |       Type:  enhancement
   Status:  new           |   Priority:  minor      
Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |    Version:  2.0        
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 Add an option to sort called "sort by recent log size"

 This would work by taking the "sort by log size", and instead weight the
 sorting based on how recent the logs are.

 I'm not going to get too far into the implementation, that should be up to
 the developer, but here is an example to outline the issue:

 Example:
 I talk to joe for 40kb this week, and 20kb last week
 I talk to tim for 20kb last week, and 50kb four months ago.

 Joe has a total log size of 60kb, Tim has a larger log size, but I don't
 care about tim because I only talked to Tim while we were working on a
 research paper together.

 Therefore, Joe should be higher on my list, but isn't.

 Primarily, this should focus on lowering users weights who I haven't
 talked to in a long time.  A simple truncating of log size calculations to
 be based on the last three months would probably perform the task
 properly.  Ties between people with no messages in the last three months
 should be sorted by total log size for those users, then alphabetically.

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