[Pidgin] #4474: Show Offline Buddies AND Show Offline Contacts

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#4474: Show Offline Buddies AND Show Offline Contacts
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  Reporter:  featurerequestor  |       Owner:          
      Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  reopened
  Priority:  minor             |   Milestone:          
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)      |     Version:  2.3.1   
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:          
   Pending:  0                 |  
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Comment (by featurerequestor):

 Richard, yeah having all buddies shown in an expanded contact would be
 good, but still not as good as the full suggestion.

 It means that to see if I've added a buddy for that contact I have to take
 the extra step of expanding the contact.  (not a huge deal, but still not
 as convenient)

 Also, your argument about 10+ buddies applies to the "Send to" menu.  You
 probably don't want all those old buddies polluting that menu.

 So if we're going to remove "clutter" from there, then maybe we only show
 buddies that are online or that have offline messaging capabilities.  And
 if we're going to do that then why not do it for the tooltip as well?
 (note: I don't like this option since I want to see all buddies)

 But I think the ultimate option is to implement as per my last message and
 in your case with the 10+ buddies, use the "show/hide when offline" buddy
 functionality to hide the buddies that you don't want to see in the list
 all the time.

 As an additional note, that functionality adds a 'show_offline' setting to
 blist.xml, and when you hide it toggle the value to 0.  In its current
 implementation it should probably remove the setting instead of setting it
 to 0.  However, if my suggestion were to be implemented it would be nice
 if the the context menu was changed to "When offline" with 3 sub-options:
 show, hide and default.  Show sets the bool to 1, hide sets the bool to 0
 and default removes the setting so that the "Show offline buddies" menu
 item is respected.

 Also if that were implemented it would be nice if the sendto menu followed
 the same rules.

 Thanks for putting your developer eyes to this ticket Richard and
 CrazyTerabyte for your input!

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