[Pidgin] #5034: Please bring back the 2.3.1 typing indicator!

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#5034: Please bring back the 2.3.1 typing indicator!
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  Reporter:  Arvedui       |       Owner:                           
      Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new                      
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:  Plugin Suggested         
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.4.0                    
Resolution:                |    Keywords:  animated typing indicator
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by deryni):

 Replying to [comment:19 AishaDracoGryph]:
 Requesting that people who actually want the code write a plugin is
 allowing for it to be added as an option. We are very much attempting not
 to forbid anything. I didn't include the protocol icon patch, and in fact
 I fought against including it as a patch, and told the author he should
 make it a plugin, other people decided to accept it. None of these things
 is beyond us, we just don't want them so we choose not to spend our time
 on them. No matter how many times people demand things if we don't see the
 point or merit in them we are under no obligation to spend our time on
 them. We at all points attempt to make it possible for people who *do*
 care to make pidgin work the way they want it to work (and have more than
 once in the past added signals for which we had no usage simply because
 someone said "I need signal X to make a plugin to do Y").

 Your assertion is that the only correct way to be "forward thinking" is to
 make only changes that do not remove anything that has ever existed
 (because someone or some people might want it that way) that is not in the
 slightest a viable option.

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