[Pidgin] #2241: Merge different protocols from the same user into one IM name

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#2241: Merge different protocols from the same user into one IM name
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 Reporter:  andrew        |       Type:  enhancement
   Status:  new           |   Priority:  minor      
Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |    Version:             
 Keywords:  wishlist      |    Pending:  0          
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 A lot of my friends have multiple user accounts and it would be beneficial
 to see them as a single user instead of the same user with multiple
 accounts.

 Lets say we have an example person called user. User has 3 accounts.

 user at yahoo.com - Yahoo chat
 user at gmail.com - Gtalk
 user at hotmail.com - MSN

 In your Pidgin window you would see three different accounts open.

 What I thought would be awesome was if you could somehow configure Pidgin
 to merge those three accounts into one so that if "user" ever logged in to
 any of them or all of them only one person would pop up in your Pidgin
 window as just the entity "user".

 If you started talking to them you could set the priority of which
 protocol you wanted to initiate talking to them on.

 If the user started chatting to you from an account on a different
 protocol while you were already talking to them then it would all end up
 in the same chat window as a reply. If the user you were talking to quit
 one application say for example Gtalk then Pidgin could just send messages
 to the next protocol in the priority list.

 I don't know what others think of this idea but it would really help me
 personally.

 Great program guys!

 Thanks,
 Andrew Fenn

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