[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 thor0215):

 Last scenario:

 Pidgin setup with 3 systems, AIM, GTALK, and Groupwise on your desktop.

 3 Buddies all the same Alias, Buddy1.  You have overlayed all the Buddy1
 contacts onto one, so that Buddy1 (GW) is default, then Buddy1(AIM) and
 then Buddy1 (GTalk).

 You normally want to talk over GW, but in the case that system is down you
 will talk over AIM or GTALK.

 You then boot up your laptop that has the real Groupwise IM client, that
 starts and kills your Pidgin connection to GW.  Shutdown your laptop, go
 back to your desktop and log out.

 Log in and pidgin starts up, but since the connection to GW was disabled
 when you closed Pidgin, it will not start it automatically.  You see
 Buddy1 in your list, but it is the AIM buddy, not GW.  For many users,
 they would not notice which protocol they are log in with and not notice
 that it did not log into GW because there is no obvious visual way to tell
 until you go digging.

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