[Pidgin] #2087: Rename Pidgin to Ostrich Based on the Developers' Attitude Toward Protocol Icons

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#2087: Rename Pidgin to Ostrich Based on the Developers' Attitude Toward Protocol
Icons
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  Reporter:  dogfood       |       Owner:        
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  closed
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:        
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0.2 
Resolution:  invalid       |    Keywords:        
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by dogfood):

 I can only speak to point 4) as your other points are in fact quite valid.
 You are ignoring completely legitimate use cases for protocol icons
 which were well explained in my bug report. That you consider them side
 effects of a misfeature, doesn't mean that they aren't in fact very
 valuable,
 no matter what you care to call them.

 While my post was perhaps overly sarcastic, it explained exactly why
 protocol icons are helpful. You might want to pull your head out
 of the sand and read it. I agree that I may be wasting my time here,
 but it's only because nothing seems to get through your thick skull.

 It's exactly your pedantic, it's gaim or Gaim not GAIM, that is going to
 be the
 reason users migrate away from Pidgin as soon as they can, despite all the
 good work you've done on it.


 Replying to [comment:2 lschiere]:
 > To be clear, we encourage you to fork pidgin if you feel so strongly
 about this.  I have repeatedly expressed the idea that it is *impossible*
 for a single UI to please all users, and have expressed, repeatedly, the
 sincere desire for libpurple to be used widely and extensively.  Indeed,
 one of the virtues of monotone is that it is trivial for you to set up
 your own project to do just this.
 >
 > Our sole objection is that our resources, our bug tracker, wiki, and so
 on, are not the appropriate venue to be begging *others* to do this work
 for you.  SourceForge projects are free, and more than adequate for the
 begining project.  Our realization of having outgrown their services is in
 no way intended to denegrate them.  Set up a webpage, and your own
 trackers, and good luck to you.

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