Pidgin

On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 10:58:46AM +0200, Jerome Lacoste wrote:
> I propose to let the user investigate the problem. I find it frustrating
> to let the program automagically remove my users. Perhaps there's
> something I can do. I then attach the steps I used to fix the problem on
> my machine.
>=20
> This is obviously too long to go in the FAQ. It can be either made
> smaller, or/and a link can be put on the FAQ to a page where this is
> contained

We'd rather not link to FAQ items outside that FAQ that could instead
just go in the FAQ.

When you tell a user to edit their config file, there's a good chance
they'll screw it up, as has been demonstrated in #gaim time and time
again. The best solution would just be to have Gaim pop up a dialog
saying the user doesn't exist, would you like to remove it, or perhaps
simply delete it. It's an invalid user, so why not just remove it?

Christian

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On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 10:58:46AM +0200, Jerome Lacoste wrote:
> I propose to let the user investigate the problem. I find it frustrating
> to let the program automagically remove my users. Perhaps there's
> something I can do. I then attach the steps I used to fix the problem on
> my machine.
> 
> This is obviously too long to go in the FAQ. It can be either made
> smaller, or/and a link can be put on the FAQ to a page where this is
> contained

(snip)

I have a better idea, I think it's much better to keep a history of
commands sent to the server, whenever an error code like that is received
we can display an error message showing the invalid user.

I wrote the code that made that possible for the older prpl, but no one
ever comitted it.

-- 
Felipe Contreras

On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 09:21:38PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 10:58:46AM +0200, Jerome Lacoste wrote:
> > I propose to let the user investigate the problem. I find it frustrating
> > to let the program automagically remove my users. Perhaps there's
> > something I can do. I then attach the steps I used to fix the problem on
> > my machine.
> >=20
> > This is obviously too long to go in the FAQ. It can be either made
> > smaller, or/and a link can be put on the FAQ to a page where this is
> > contained
>=20
> (snip)
>=20
> I have a better idea, I think it's much better to keep a history of
> commands sent to the server, whenever an error code like that is received
> we can display an error message showing the invalid user.
>=20
> I wrote the code that made that possible for the older prpl, but no one
> ever comitted it.

I've considered it, but for the moment, I don't want that complexity
in there. Not yet, anyway. Anyhow, this won't be fixed in 0.65, so
there will be time to think about it.

Christian
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   C program run, C program crash, C programmer cry.