[Pidgin] #4933: Order not followed for buddy with multiple connections, default connection is wrong one

[Pidgin]

#4933: Order not followed for buddy with multiple connections, default connection
is wrong one
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 Reporter:  kylen             |       Owner:  rekkanoryo
     Type:  defect            |      Status:  new
Milestone:                    |   Component:  libpurple
  Version:  2.3.1             |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  connection order  |
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Comment (by vnicolici):

 This is still an issue in Pidgin 2.10.7.

 This is even more annoying for XMPP, because I can't ungroup the contact.

 There is only one contact, with multiple statuses on his/her devices.

 When it's available on one device and away on another device pidgin shows
 the contact as away, instead of available.

 It seems it uses the XMPP "priority" of the resources to determine the
 status to show, instead of showing the connections based on the priorities
 from prefs/status/scores .

 What's funny is that pidgin doesn't even have the option to define a
 priority when defining an account:

 https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/1345 is closed, but the feature still
 doesn't exist.

 Luckily IM+ on my Windows Phone has the feature, and I had to lower its
 priority from 5 to 0 to make it lower than the default hardcoded pidgin
 priority of 1.

 There seems to be a plugin pack to configure priorities, but how many non-
 technical users will find it and be able to configure it properly?

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