[Pidgin] #562: case for old icons: Advantagous heuristics of differentiated protocol icons

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#562: case for old icons: Advantagous heuristics of differentiated protocol icons
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  Reporter:  Ash           |       Owner:                
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  closed        
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:                
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0           
Resolution:  duplicate     |    Keywords:  icons protocol
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by merwin):

 Replying to [comment:9 elb]:
 > It is clear from this, and your next comment, that you don't understand
 this because you are not a programmer.  That is fine, but it does make
 assertions like "it would just be ..." somewhat shady.  Any time there is
 a portion of code which is only exercised ''sometimes'', there is
 disproportionate cost for maintaining that code.  You are sort of correct,
 in that the cost is not ''that'' great, but it is greater than the value
 of the option (which is very nearly nil).
 Actually, it turns out that the cost is less that even I thought it would
 be. Turns out to be under 30 lines of code. Anyhoo, if you want to include
 the patch at any point (complete with a configuration option), it can be
 found here:
 http://merwin.bespin.org/pidgin/
 > But you assume that the regular developers do have the spare time to
 write such a plugin, apparently without even any idea of how much time
 that would be?  Interesting logic...
 Took me 2 hours to create the patch. I would assume (without looking at
 the plugin api) that it wouldn't be much longer to wrap it in a plugin.

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