[Pidgin] #414: You dont the See Which Protocol

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#414: You dont the See Which Protocol
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  Reporter:  dancle        |       Owner:  lschiere
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  closed  
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:          
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0     
Resolution:  wontfix       |    Keywords:          
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by deryni):

 thor0215: If you have buddies who prefer one over the other arrange the
 contact in that order, that is *exactly* what ordering the contact buddies
 is for. If you intentionally want to pick one then you need to go look,
 once you are already spending the effort looking the fact that you need
 the Send To menu, or the right-click menu, or the tooltip is not a hassle.
 The fact that under normal use you *don't* need to know is exactly the
 reason not to have it in the buddy list, because having it there requires
 you to pay attention to it, even if just long enough to process the icon
 as 'available', and that's effort, work, and possible confusion we want to
 avoid.
 It isn't hard to add the icon where the current mobile icon lives but it
 isn't useful all the time so it will just take up space and add clutter
 for no gain. And adding things for no gain is something to be avoided.

 ffdragon2: As has been stated numerous times preference of one protocol
 over another is not a reason to need to see the protocol icon, that's what
 contact ordering is for, put the buddies you don't want to use at the
 bottom of the contact, if that isn't enough compile and use the Contact
 Priority plugin to give those accounts/protocols lower priority, if you
 need per-contact priority settings add that to the plugin and submit a
 patch (I'd accept it). As to your specific case why not just tell that
 person to turn chat off for their gmail account?

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