[Pidgin] #2633: Groups + Undergroups

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#2633: Groups + Undergroups
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 Reporter:  liljawa      |        Owner:              
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  closed      
Milestone:               |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.1.0        |   Resolution:  wontfix     
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment(by deryni):

 You seem to have assumed I indicated that everything pidgin doesn't
 support is "glitz" that is not even remotely close to what I meant, nor
 true.

 If you have real features you think pidgin should have *file tickets
 requesting them*. If you don't, we have no way of knowing you want them.

 Now, as to your two reported/requested features.

 It is definitely sub-optimal that pidgin doesn't give you a way to find
 out what messages may have existed that you had not seen. However, a
 combination of existing plugins does mitigate that problem (as would
 judicious use of logging and time/date searching), namely the
 [ThirdPartyPlugins#Interfacetweaks Session Save plugin] and the bundled
 History plugin. A well implemented patch for this feature in pidgin would
 be welcome.

 pidgin supports docking the buddy list window to the side of the screen in
 Windows, it does not in Linux because there is only spotty support for
 such a feature in most environments. In neither case does pidgin support
 acting like a hide-able tray, which is the feature I assume you are asking
 for. Why we don't support that on Windows I'm not sure (but likely simply
 because it isn't something we could get for free and as such requires
 someone to write the feature and it hasn't happened, again patches likely
 welcome). As to Linux, we don't support it there because we would need to
 write quite a bit of code to do that and that is rightly something your
 window management environment should provide for you automatically (for
 any window you wish, not just ones from applications that support it). I
 know a couple of environments that support that already.

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