[Pidgin] #4442: Conversation window is closed without notice

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#4442: Conversation window is closed without notice
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  Reporter:  robochief        |       Owner:  datallah
      Type:  defect           |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  minor            |   Milestone:          
 Component:  winpidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.3.1   
Resolution:                   |    Keywords:          
   Pending:  0                |  
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Comment (by Daniel Beardsmore):

 The History plugin in totally unacceptable to me because it involves a ton
 of disc grinding and graunching to open a tab with anyone -- something
 about scouring the entire log directory like a detective in a murder case
 just to fetch the most recent log file. I have to put up with this to
 manually browse logs, but it really slows down opening new tabs.

 The new feature simply brings back data already held in memory, making it
 instantaneous, which is far better.

 I would love it if the History plugin was actually usable, but it drove me
 batty and I turned it off. I don't necessarily blame the Pidgin guys, as
 Explorer is exactly te same, so they -- or the GTK+ team -- may be
 unwisely relying on some bad API calls. The Windows command line doesn't
 have all these problems, so there are certainly much faster ways to fetch
 a list of folders and files than whatever Pidgin and Explorer are doing.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4442#comment:30>
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