[Pidgin] #2116: Status to apply at startup appears to not work correctly

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#2116: Status to apply at startup appears to not work correctly
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  Reporter:  gory          |       Owner:                            
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  closed                    
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:                            
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0.2                     
Resolution:  invalid       |    Keywords:  status at startup invisble
   Pending:  0             |  
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Changes (by deryni):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => invalid

Comment:

 No, enabling is *not* logging in, as I tried to explain. There are plenty
 of cases where hitting 'enable' will not log the account in, if the global
 status is Offline is the most obvious one, but I have a number of custom
 statuses which force a number of accounts to be offline and as such if I
 were to enable those accounts while in that status they would not log in.

 You can set different statuses for each account, that is what the status
 creation dialogs are for, the current status system give you *infinitely*
 more control than anything gaim was ever able to do. For example in pidgin
 you can create a 'work only' status which signs you off of all but your
 internal corporate jabber server and save it for later use, you can create
 a status which sets you as Away 'in a meeting' for non-work accounts but
 leaves you available for work accounts. With gaim you would need to
 individually tweak each account every time you wanted to do such a thing.

 As a real-world example, I have a 'Home for the night' status which signs
 off my personal accounts but leaves my work account online which I use
 every night, and a 'Work' status which has all of my accounts signed in
 with a 'Work' available message. That is two clicks to go home and two
 clicks when I get back in as opposed to the in excess of 12 clicks I would
 have needed to do the same with gaim (I have seven accounts total).

 I am closing this ticket as invalid since things are working as designed,
 but feel free to post again if you need more explanation or have more
 comments.

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