[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:     
      Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:     
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0
Resolution:                |    Keywords:     
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Comment (by deryni):

 I think trying to do any such compromise solution is as likely to confuse
 people as anything else, especially when the mechanism for what the name
 on the taskbar icon means stops being as simple as 'the current tab' and
 becomes something more complicated 'the current tab when focused, the
 current tab when unfocused and no new messages, but the last person to
 send a message when unfocused and new messages'. That's complicated enough
 for me to even just have typed out let alone most people to (and I hate
 using this word) intuitively understand. I really think the final goal
 being requested here is a wrong one, the flashing should indicate activity
 not more, if you want to know who sent you a message there are better ways
 to get that information, things like gaimosd or guifications for example,
 as well as anything dbus. I understand why people think they want what
 they are asking for but I don't think they really realize the complexity
 of the model needed, both in the code and in their heads, to make it work.
 I think moving back to a window name of 'Conversations' or of 'GROUPNAME'
 or of 'ACCOUNT' will solve the problem here and make people find real
 solutions to the part they still want, which is knowing who sent them a
 message.

 Also, even if given what they wanted it would only help for the last
 person to send you a message, and not at all if more than one did, and it
 would be wildly jumping around if multiple people were messaging you, all
 of which are not good and not what people want.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/260#comment:6>
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