[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):

 If users don't have multiple accounts then they can't have buddies with
 different capabilities, so your example sort of falls apart there.

 We didn't 'hide' anything, we just moved it so that you only see it when
 you need to see it and not when you don't (i.e. most of the time). And if
 we didn't move things that weren't important out of the main interface
 things would get so immensely complicated and confusing as to be unusable.
 We moved AIM Capabilities out of the tooltip ages ago for reasons like
 this, and while that information actually 'can' be useful, virtually no
 one complained, and at this stage no one does.

 When users need to know they can, when they don't we don't force them to.
 That's a good design principle, it means pidgin can grow with a user who
 needs it to grow with them and means it can be useful for people who do
 know about protocols but don't generally care. Seeing the protocol icons
 all the time forces everyone to know about them, confuses people who don't
 know and don't care, and doesn't help the people who do know when they
 need to know because the places they need to know have the information
 also.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/414#comment:68>
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