[Pidgin] #12680: Buddy list disappears
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Sun Sep 26 06:01:52 EDT 2010
#12680: Buddy list disappears
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Reporter: nyh | Type: defect
Status: new | Component: pidgin (gtk)
Version: 2.7.3 | Keywords:
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Every once in a while, when I start Pidgin (on Linux, fedora 13) nothing
appears to happen. After I did some investigation, I realised that Pidgin
does start fine - it just doesn't show the buddy-list window. I discovered
that in prefs.xml there is a "list_visible" parameter, and strangely it
was set to 0. When I set it to 1, everything returned to normal.
I couldn't figure out why this was happening - what changed this parameter
to 0. I didn't ask this to be set (I haven't even been to pidgin's
configuration screens in ages), and frankly I don't know who would -
what's the point in running pidgin without the buddy list window???
It happened to me 3 times in the last few months, and I couldn't find
anything in common or anything that I did to cause these events.
I consider this to be a bug, because less experienced user completely
helpless facing it: He won't be able to start pidgin, and *nothing* he
does (upgrading, reinstalling, rebooting, etc.) will ever bring it back -
from now on, until the end of time, pidgin will start up without any
window and therefore unusable...
I think that pidgin shouldn't at all have an option to come up without any
window. If somebody doesn't want to see the buddy window, he can iconify
it. But at least he'll have the option to un-iconify the window and
disable this option... As it stands, when no window comes up, I don't even
have any way to see the options. I was lucky that a Google search brought
up this "prefs.xml" file.
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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/12680>
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