[Pidgin] #3742: Consider adding optional history inclusion for new chat participants.

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#3742: Consider adding optional history inclusion for new chat participants.
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Reporter:  glowther     |       Owner:  lschiere         
    Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new              
Priority:  minor        |   Component:  unclassified     
 Version:  2.2.2        |    Keywords:  chat room history
 Pending:  0            |  
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 One of the most common "pain" points (more of an annoyance/inconvenience,
 really) in using the chat room feature of Pidgin is that, if the chat has
 been going on for a while, any late-comers are a bit lost. For example,
 say I've been chatting with 9 members of my team, and the 10th one shows
 up a few minutes late, it's tough to get that person caught up on what's
 been discussed thus far.

 A more common (for me) example is when I'm discussing a problem with a few
 folks, and we collectively agree that "Genius X" knows more about this
 than all of us combined, and really should be in on the discussion. So I
 invite "Genius X", but then have to spend the next few minutes cutting and
 pasting comments from *my* view of the chat room history to help get
 Genius all caught up. Not efficient at all.

 Pidgin could help with this common problem. How about providing an option
 to include all, or some number of lines, of the chat room history into the
 window of a new chat room participant? There are frequently times where
 that would be enormously helpful. Of course, in the interests of
 streamlining the invitation process (which means, not forcing me to deal
 with a bunch of prompts for each invitation), there should be a way to do
 this, or a way to just accept all defaults and *not* do this. Often, I
 just need a quick'n'dirty "get in here!" invitation, which should be as
 fast as humanly possible. Other times, I need to make sure that the new
 participant has what s/he needs in order to effectively participate in the
 chat. That makes sense, right? Hope so!!

 Thank you very much for your time and consideration!

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