[Pidgin] #451: No Proticol icons

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#451: No Proticol icons
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 Reporter:  AishaDracogryph  |       Type:  defect
   Status:  new              |   Priority:  minor 
Component:  pidgin (gtk)     |    Version:  2.0   
 Keywords:  Icons            |  
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 I loved gaim, but now that the name has changed seems like at least one
 major thing was taken away. Protocol icons, As it is I have little way to
 tell what network many of my contacts are on. I have been told to simply
 mouse over the contact or right click none of witch actually tells me what
 IM network they are using. It tells me what account the nick is under but
 that is useless as I have the same name for my yahoo and aim accounts.

 It seems insane to think that they were taken away, and not at least left
 as an option, their are many reasons i'd need to know what network a
 person is on. Maybe I want to send an offline message to my friend's yahoo
 nick, maybe I want to send a file to someone.

 I went onto the IRC chat and was met with a verry rude and inappropriate
 response, the developer that was their who talked to me was extreamly rude
 and ignored everything I was saying. I gave him ample reasons why I needed
 them, but he continued to ignore everything I said.

 It seems very counter intuitive to get rid of usefull features and not
 even allow one to use them anymore at all. I'm very disappointed and
 rather upset with the horrible time I had trying to get an answer to this
 problem. This dose not give me a good impression of what open source
 software is like. It seems open source means you can ignore your users,
 since you have no legal obligation to your customers (since you offer it
 for free).

 I'm still using it for now, but see myself rapidly running back to my old
 gaim installation, I cringe at the thought that this problem might never
 be fixed, and I may have to use a program that I can never update and
 could become out dated.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/451>
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