[Pidgin] #8896: Window icon and title in tabbed mode

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#8896: Window icon and title in tabbed mode
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 Reporter:  msundman      |     Owner:  lschiere
     Type:  defect        |    Status:  new     
Component:  unclassified  |   Version:  2.5.5   
 Keywords:                |  
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 The point of an icon is to easily recognize or find what you're looking
 for. When you run pidgin in tabbed mode (Preferences->Interface->Show IMs
 and chats in tabbed windows) an IM-window represents the conversations of
 '''all''' tabs in that window. Now the window icon and title are taken
 from the frontmost tab in the window. This is bad because it makes the
 window hard to find. Tabbed windows should have a pidgin icon and have a
 title starting "Pidgin" or "Chat" or "IM" or somesuch generic text,
 because that's the most specific identifying abstraction of such a window.

 E.g., say I'm IMing with Ann, Bob, Carol and a few others. I switch to
 another window for a while and then I want to say something to Bob. I scan
 the taskbar for Bob's avatar or a Pidgin icon but none of the taskbar
 buttons have that, so I scan it again for the title "Bob" or "Pidgin" but
 again none of them have that. If I want to find the correct window I'd
 either have to remember who I was chatting with last and look for that or
 start going through the taskbar buttons very carefully and for each one
 ask myself "Could this be it?" (which is the very thing icons are meant to
 prevent).

 So, not only is this a UI defect (the too-specific icon+title instead of a
 properly specific abstraction is simply wrong), but has also the
 (un)practical consequence of causing a heavy cognitive load when looking
 for an IM-window (i.e., when actually using the icon+title).

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8896>
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