[Pidgin] #4213: Pidgin doesn't synchronize blist.xml completely after moving buddy on AIM protocol
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Mon Dec 3 12:46:38 EST 2007
#4213: Pidgin doesn't synchronize blist.xml completely after moving buddy on AIM
protocol
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Reporter: varchar255 | Owner: MarkDoliner
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: AIM | Version: 2.2.2
Resolution: | Keywords:
Pending: 0 |
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Comment (by deryni):
This is something pidgin has historically avoided doing quite on purpose.
This is because historically many of the IM services were particularly
prone to losing one's entire buddy list (sometimes temporarily but
sometime permanently), at which point at login time they would just send
an empty buddy list to the client. If pidgin assumed that meant the user
had deleted all the buddies in the list the local copy would have served
no purpose. While it is no longer the case that such losses are frequent
they still do occasionally occur and would still trigger such undesirable
behaviour.
What pidgin needs (and has needed for *ages*) is a functional and friendly
list-sync manager dialog which pops up when the server list and the local
list disagree and which allows the user to specify what local changes are
authoritative and what remote changes are.
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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4213#comment:1>
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