[Pidgin] #3600: Prioritize Accounts for Merged Contacts

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#3600: Prioritize Accounts for Merged Contacts
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 Reporter:  andrei.neculau                        |       Type:  enhancement
   Status:  new                                   |   Priority:  minor      
Component:  pidgin (gtk)                          |    Version:  2.2.1      
 Keywords:  merged contacts prioritize protocols  |    Pending:  0          
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 People often have preferences for protocols - We shouldn't live in such a
 split world of protocols, but we do, therefore we choose protocols by
 choosing the single-protocol messenger.

 Lots of people don't have the possibility/knowledge that they can have
 multi-protocol messengers also, so they just keep 2,3,4.. messengers
 running, but they always have a special one - a messenger that they got
 accustomed to.

 Having that in mind, right now there seems to be no way of prioritizing
 protocols - per messenger, or per contact.

 If I have a friend of mine on Yahoo and also on MSN, it seems that
 contact-merging is doing a random pick over which one to be the default
 one (the one that appears when the merged-contact is collapsed) and I
 cannot change that. If I want to talk to him (or he wants me to talk to
 him) on Yahoo, whenever it is possible... having his MSN as "default" for
 the merged-contact.. I have to right click, go to the account option, and
 Initiate Chat. Or to expand the merged-contact, which makes the merging a
 bit useless - it doesn't make the list smaller, but on the contrary.

 Couldn't the merged-contacts be prioritized at least depending on the
 order of the active accounts set up in Pidgin? If I have Yahoo on the
 first position, and I have friends online on both Yahoo and MSN, when I
 initiate a chat by double-clicking the "default"/merged-contact I want to
 go straight to Yahoo chat. And only when they are offline on Yahoo, but
 online on MSN, that I go to MSN chat.

 Of course this can be extended to have such a preference per user, but per
 messenger is a good start.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/3600>
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