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

[Pidgin]

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

Comment(by deryni):

 The reason we keep the message in the entry box (which I'm not sure I
 realized took place when manually switching back from the auto-away
 status) is because there are many people (largely MSN users) who want this
 behaviour for status messages they have entered for themselves.

 Your problem is that you aren't hitting backspace or delete after you
 change that status to clear the message. Which, I mentioned before, is far
 from a critical problem. If you interact with pidgin, thus causing it to
 bring you back on its own it will likely (I say likely because without
 testing I cannot be sure) remove the message correctly, that is I believe
 it is your manual interaction that is causing the problem.

 If this problem is really that horrible to you you can (as I indicated in
 my previous comment) simply create an Away status without a message and
 set that as the status to use when going auto-away or disable auto-away if
 you don't want that feature at all. Either solution avoids this problem
 *entirely* and takes less time than the time it took you to decide to look
 up this issue and file your comment.

 Again, I do think our default status needs to better indicate that it has
 a message and I believe we should likely have a default Away status that
 doesn't have a message and I further believe that a way to have a status
 (auto-away or otherwise) not set a message (thus using the current
 message) is a good idea (just one that needs a good interface designed
 before it should be done).

-- 
Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/9046#comment:12>
Pidgin <http://pidgin.im>
Pidgin