[Pidgin] #7545: Make release notifications plugin less obnoxious

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#7545: Make release notifications plugin less obnoxious
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Reporter:  caseyho  |        Type:  patch                
  Status:  new      |   Component:  pidgin (gtk)         
 Version:  2.5.2    |    Keywords:  release notifications
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 Currently the release notifications plugin pops up a dialog window
 whenever there is a new release.  This works correctly, but the dialog
 will continue to show up every time you start Pidgin afterwards.  This
 gets annoying quickly.

 There are two options here (not necessarily exclusive).
 1) Make the dialog less attention grabbing
 2) Add an "ignore" option that will prevent the dialog from showing

 The patch in this ticket accomplishes part 1.  The dialog is moved from to
 a small alert at the bottom of the buddy list- it longer directly
 interferes with the user flow (good!).

 On the bad side, the user no longer sees the changelog.  Pressing the
 button will take them to the webpage where they can view the changelog.  I
 think this is a reasonable sacrifice, and is the standard for many popular
 apps today (Firefox, iTunes).

 It would be great to improve the upgrade process to smooth the flow out,
 but that's outside of the scope of this patch.  Likewise, the second
 option could be included in another patch.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7545>
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