[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):

 Apewall: The fact that you state that the old method was "absolutely and
 positively better" does not make it so, and no one (yourself included) has
 given a reason why it was concretely better yet. So until you are prepared
 to do so please stop simply asserting it. Thank you. Further, the fact
 that in order to use an account in pidgin you need to select the protocol
 in the first place is *not* enough to guarantee that the people using it
 understand what protocol they are using or even what protocols are. Do you
 want to know how I know this? I know this because people used to come into
 #gaim *all the time* and complain about something being broken and when
 asked what protocol they were using responded with "what?". When then
 asked if they were using MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, etc. they responded with
 "Oh, I don't know, the one with the X image." While that sounds very hard
 to believe I have seen it *consistently*, furthermore, pidgin users (and
 IM users in general) are among the least technically sophisticated and
 saavy users of *any* client base I can think of short of the client base
 of 'secretaries who use Word'. If you don't believe me on this feel free
 to sit in #pidgin and #pidgin-win32 for a couple weeks, as well as on
 these boards, the trackers, and the mailing list and watch the people we
 see come around.

 I *hate* how dumb the people can be, but it is astonishing and pervasive.

 And finally, just so that it is out there one last time, there has yet to
 be presented a case where this change has actually negatively impacted any
 real usage scenario where that scenario is not as well or better served
 with other more appropriate changes/mechanisms. The changes and mechanisms
 I'm talking about do not all exist yet but they will all exist much sooner
 if people actually need them, and in the end everyone will be better off.

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