[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 you didn't lose any preferences, if there wasn't any functional lose,
 if nothing became harder or impossible because of the prefslash then you
 have no argument here. So either you did lose something, or you can point
 to something that changed, or there isn't anything here to look at. I know
 which of those I think is the case.

 pidgin will never become like miranda and require dozens of plugins to
 even use usefull. That was not, is not, and will not ever be the goal of
 the project, that being said things that most people will not need, things
 that are best served by additional functionality and the like *are* well
 served by plugins.

 Yes, and eventually the heat death of the universe will claim us all,
 that's not the point. I fully welcome real complaints, but those
 complaints had better have 'real' 'concrete' reasons behind them if they
 want to be taken seriously. We knew going in to this that people would
 complain, we discussed this change at length, we spent great effort making
 sure we didn't remove any functionality by doing this (and in the couple
 places we might have we intend to make everything work better in the end).
 We really did think this through carefully and do our best to make sure
 everyone was served well by the change. I am rather certain we did that
 and I think that with a little more effort things will get to be much
 better than they ever could have been before.

 The 'someone' in that phrase is as likely to be myself or one of the other
 developers as it is to be someone else, the large majority of the really
 useful plugins for pidgin always have been (or at the very least by crazy
 patch writers).

 To state this again, at no point will pidgin ever devolve into requiring
 plugins to do the basic IM client things, and should any normal features
 be implemented with plugins those plugins will be written and maintained
 by us, and distributed with pidgin.

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