[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 zak):

 Replying to [comment:57 seanegan]:
 > That is inevitable. We will hear complaints about this for weeks from
 people who decided within 30 seconds that they can't live without protocol
 icons. Then, after a few weeks, once people have actually *used* it, the
 complaints will slowly fade out.

 This might be because people have either given up trying to convince you
 or they just moved to another client. Unfortunately there is no good
 alternative in Linux.

 I really do not understand, why so many designers of computer software
 think it is so important to hide every seems-not-to-be-important-detail
 from the users. With the same argument you could say that a graphics
 program should save it's files only in one format because users might get
 confused what jpg, tif... means. Another example is that file extensions
 are hidden since a long time, and I still hate it.

 Perhaps you start a poll later when people, as you say, got used to the
 new status icons.

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