[Pidgin] #9417: Usability Improvement

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#9417: Usability Improvement
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 Reporter:  chjunior     |        Owner:              
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  new         
Milestone:               |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.5.6        |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment(by deryni):

 Do any of the official clients do anything at all resembling this? Do any
 other third-party clients do anything like this? I've never heard of it if
 they have. Which makes me wonder how much of an issue this really is.
 Proposing that we randomly (because that's how it will appear to users,
 even once they understand it) scroll around their buddy list while
 collapsing and uncollapsing things doesn't sound very friendly to me.

 Imagine if the user tries to click on a buddy to start a message just as
 the offline buddy were to disappear, and worse, just as the group he was
 placed in collapses, the user is now going to click on who knows what
 buddy instead. (Granted this is an issue under normal circumstances as
 well with buddies logging in and signing off, but generally not groups at
 a time and not as a direct result of things the user themselves did.)

 Consider also where we would scroll the buddy to? Simply into view? As
 close to the center as we can? Do we try to restore the previous scroll
 point after we do this?

 I'm not convinced that the problem being solved here is greater than the
 potential harm solving it brings. I'm open to further discussion though.

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