[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 Apewall):

 Deryni: I didn't say I lost any preferences in the transition, my point
 was that Pidgin has become more difficult to use for advanced users, and
 is going in the direction of forcing us to go to great lengths to achieve
 things that were once readily available.  I do not want to see down the
 road that I'm having to download 50+ plugins to achieve a form of Pidgin
 that I'm content with.

 And as a programmer you should know, that regardless of the change, given
 enough time there will be no more complaints by users of removed features,
 them having given up since the developers have no intentions of reverting
 the feature, and new users unaware that anything was removed.

 The adoption of the "Someone else will create a plugin/fix" development
 model is what leads to the above scenario I stated, where one must go to
 great lengths to achieve what was once already available features.

 To agree with Nrbelex, I'm glad that you'll take the time to discuss this
 instead of forcing the ticket of this to unchangeable.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/414#comment:87>
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