[Pidgin] #9046: Auto-away sets away message...

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#9046: Auto-away sets away message...
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 Reporter:  Daemonax   |        Owner:  deryni      
     Type:  defect     |       Status:  new         
Milestone:             |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.5.5      |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:  Auto away  |  
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Comment(by deryni):

 You are dumping pidgin because the default Away status has a message? When
 you can easily create your own away status without such a message and use
 it?

 The issue here is that we do not make it immediately clear that such a
 message will be used and do not allow people to prevent that message from
 being used with the default status. A fact to consider here is that pidgin
 has had that default Away message since essentially forever (if not in
 fact actually forever) so considering that the complaints about it have
 just now started really happening in earnest (fairly long after the
 initial change to the new status system even, the new status system is
 what has exacerbated the issue) indicates that the issue is likely not
 nearly as serious as one might want to make out. I am not making light of
 the problem, nor attempting to indicate it isn't a problem, just trying to
 put it in the proper perspective.

 There is an additional wrinkle, as indicated by ilgaspa, in that some
 people would like the default statuses to preserve their current message
 when they have one, which is likely an expectation derived from MSN's
 historic lack of status messages (only friendly names) but is a usage we
 have been trying to better serve recently.

 I am currently unable to come up with an appropriate way to model this
 without simply adding a checkbox to the preferences dialog page dealing
 with the auto-away status which says "Preserve current status message over
 auto-away" or similar, which is by far not an ideal interface for this.

 There is one alternative, which is somewhat more complicated to use, which
 would be to create that checkbox in the New Status dialog and require
 people to create their own auto-away status to do this sort of thing.

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