[Pidgin] #260: Wrong name reported in windows taskbar

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#260: Wrong name reported in windows taskbar
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  Reporter:  kaddar        |       Owner:  MarkDoliner
      Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new        
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:             
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0        
Resolution:                |    Keywords:             
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Comment (by deryni):

 The name of a conversation window should not be the name of the active
 tab, that is just a broken model for an application like pidgin. I have
 been planning for ages to move the window title stuff into the
 conversation placement functions so that the current conversation
 placement scheme can set 'intelligent' titles for the windows, the account
 name for By Account, the group name for By Group, the buddy name for one-
 per-window, etc. That would solve most of the issues here, though it
 wouldn't help the people who really want tabbed conversations and for the
 flashing window to show the name of the buddy who sent the message, but
 they are rather hard to satisfy without breaking lots of things.

 As to what Mark tried, he tried implementing auto-tab switching when new
 messages came in but we couldn't decide on when it would be acceptable to
 auto-switch and when it wouldn't do so. Simply not being in focus is not
 enough because the person might be referring to the window for what they
 are actively working on, being unviewable was tried but annoyed people
 when the tab they were on when they iconified isn't the tab they come back
 to later.

 As far as I am concerned the people who want window title by current tab
 and 'correct' name flashing want something that is basically untenable in
 the long run.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/260#comment:2>
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