[Pidgin] #741: please bring back protocol specific icons

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#741: please bring back protocol specific icons
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  Reporter:  bodo          |       Owner:        
      Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  closed
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:        
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0   
Resolution:  duplicate     |    Keywords:        
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by bodo):

 Replying to [comment:5 deryni]:
 > I think getting your friends to 'unbreak' their IM usage is likely a
 good place for you to start on this.

 God knows I tried, didn't work, though. Also there're clients out there
 which don't encourage changing the status, there're also clients out there
 which don't submit idle status.

 > I mostly agree that putting the protocol icons back in the conversation
 window somewhere would be a good idea and will likely get to working on a
 plugin for such sometime in the near future.

 That sounds promising, thanks. I'm more than willing to beta test this.

 > I, however, still strongly think putting them back in the buddy list is
 a poor idea.

 Maybe another column could be introduced, either between the status icons
 and the contact name or between the contact name and the buddy icon (or
 even right of the buddy icon), of course the user gets to decide if he
 wants them shown or not.
 I don't think it's a poor idea, it's just another way of organizing your
 contacts, why not let the user decide?[[BR]]
 As I said before, my main concern is the protocol icons in the
 conversation window.

 > I would however accept a system to add keybindings to switching the
 currently active conversation in the conversation window (instead of
 needing to mouse over to Send To) which method should likely print a
 message in the conversation window as it switches.

 That would be a nice thing, too, what with all the time wasted by pushing
 the mouse around. ^_^

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