[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 leorolla):

 I understand, but in my view it is not the case here.

 We just want to put clear that Pidgin is setting idiomatic text messages
 on the behalf of the user, a preety non-standard and unexpected behavior
 for incoming users.

 This can't be accepted as a *default behavior* in a messenger client.

 The consequences to the user can be many(*). It is easy to fix, but *only*
 when it happens to the user, he will get disappointed, google around and
 find that Pidgin has this particularity that can be easly hacked, and then
 either hack it while remaining disappointed or just drop it.

 We are all minority here. The majority uses Live Messenger. We can't form
 a bulk inside this select group and refuse to understand that setting by
 default idiomatic text messages on the behalf of the user, without asking
 what that message should be, without warning the user at all, just because
 the majority of *present-day* Pidgin users don't find it a hassle.

 (*) Let's go to cases then: for many groups of people setting a status
 message explaining that you are away just sounds weird, and the user who
 just installed and started using pidgin will have weird messages that
 never came from his keyboard, for some others it can sound
 unproffessional, up to the point that people come to this page padging for
 it and even offering money; for others it might just sound silly; for
 others it might be ackward; some user may not have at all the habbit of
 displaying status messages about being or not being available and have
 this message sound ackward to his contacts; some user may hate the
 expression "right now"; some user have chosen to set Away by messages sent
 instead of mouse activity, and even though he is sitting there his boss
 sees "I'm not here..."; and some users may simply find it not correct that
 the messenger client chooses a message for them without permission.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/9046#comment:36>
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