[Pidgin] #13000: Pidgin is not friendly to new users: Does not prompt of updates

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#13000: Pidgin is not friendly to new users: Does not prompt of updates
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 Reporter:  masm501      |        Owner:  rekkanoryo  
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  new         
Milestone:               |    Component:  unclassified
  Version:  2.7.7        |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment(by deryni):

 Just a few pieces of information:

 "During installation" is only a meaningful thing to say on Windows. On
 non-Windows platforms pidgin is most often installed via a package
 management tool which handles notifying users of available updates
 automatically (if configured to do so).

 There is next to nothing about software in general that is "intuitive".
 That being said there is much that can be controlled in pidgin via plugins
 so looking there for features is not out of line for normal pidgin usage
 (though I will grant that many users do not think to look there for
 anything which is a problem in and of itself).

 Nothing short of automatic updates (the way Firefox or Google Chrome
 handle things is "user friendly").

 It would not be unreasonable to have the Windows installer ask about
 enabling default plugins and setting things up so that new users of pidgin
 will get those plugins loaded by default (it will not affect users who
 already have configuration lying around though).

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