[Pidgin] #5876: ability to hide away/idle buddies as well as mobile buddies

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Mon Dec 22 14:54:41 EST 2008


#5876: ability to hide away/idle buddies as well as mobile buddies
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 Reporter:  sumitk                       |        Owner:              
     Type:  patch                        |       Status:  new         
Milestone:  Patches Needing Improvement  |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.4.2                        |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:                               |  
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Comment(by rlaager):

 Replying to [comment:33 sumitk]:
 > Replying to [comment:31 deryni]:
 > > From a quick look at the patch my only concern is that it doesn't seem
 to migrate the existing preferences to the new names, which means that
 people will lose the 'show offline' flag for buddies, and the 'Show
 Offline' preference for the buddy list.
 > Yes, migration is missing. I'll fix that.

 Why not just leave the preference as "show_offline"? I realize it's not
 perfect (and it has the opposite sense of show_always, so you'd have to
 reverse your logic), but leaving it would avoid all the migration code.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/5876#comment:34>
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