The new status area(2.1.0) may be funny. Though it wastes a lot of space and isn't useful or needed for everyone.
So where is the disable option for that. Is this missing?
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Remember, the developers know better than you do. They would already have this option in if it was worth it.
*shakes head* Wait a second, why am I talking like one of the Pidgin devs? Not sure what got into me there. I'm completely with you, the new bar is fucking pointless.
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Good thing you didn't bother to look, because you might have seen that there is a preference not to show the details in the conversation window and wouldn't have looked like a complete jerk.
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Nah, all that means is that the devs actually thought the option was needed. It would not have been put in otherwise, because they know better, as I have stated.
PS, I don't mind looking like a complete jerk when it means throwing other jerky and holier-than-thou attitudes back in people's faces.
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The only jerky and holier-than-thou attitudes that have ever been present have come from the users who make demands and assert their superiority over the developers and the other users. But somehow I don't expect that this message will come across this time more than the other times I've tried. So, given that we do have the requested option, are listening when people talk, are explaining why we did things, and are considering changes to accomodate people I'm a bit confused how you feel justified in continuing to be an ass.
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Speak for yourself. I would really much rather have the icon back where it was, full sized so I could tell at a glance whose IM window it is. The current infopane takes up too much space with the buddy's name -- which I already have from the window title and any text that's been flowing -- and crams the icon into the corner so I can't tell what (or whose) it is.
See, I'm all for the other updates. The terser formatting bar, the buddy list popping up instead of "Another instance is already running" (been wanting that for awhile; but then, my mouse is crapping out on me and keeps clicking about a million times when I just try to double-click, so I've been more prone to this error than usual), and even the infopane if it could be executed in perhaps a better way. I appreciate all the work that's done on Pidgin, and yet each update brings about at least one annoying "feature" that I can't take away. I think I'll revert to the old version until the rough corners are smoothed out, if indeed they ever are.
It seems that the infopane was designed with the tabbed conversation windows in mind, though not all of us use that option. I know, tabs are a "killer feature" etc., I just don't like them for my IMs. I'm never talking to enough people to warrant collapsing them into one obfuscated window that I have to scroll through any time I want to converse with someone else. So instead of providing buddy info as I scroll through the tabs, the infobar shines a big beautiful screenname at me that I already had from the title of the window and basically takes away the buddy icon. I see they've added support for animated icons -- bravo! And yet, the icon is now so small and unnoticeable that this doesn't matter. Argh!
So, with this, I was finally compelled to register to voice my complaints and to file some Windows bug reports (or complaints, as it may turn out to be) if they haven't been already.
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The new status area(2.1.0) may be funny. Though it wastes a lot of space and isn't useful or needed for everyone.
So where is the disable option for that. Is this missing?
Remember, the developers know better than you do. They would already have this option in if it was worth it.
*shakes head* Wait a second, why am I talking like one of the Pidgin devs? Not sure what got into me there. I'm completely with you, the new bar is fucking pointless.
Good thing you didn't bother to look, because you might have seen that there is a preference not to show the details in the conversation window and wouldn't have looked like a complete jerk.
Nah, all that means is that the devs actually thought the option was needed. It would not have been put in otherwise, because they know better, as I have stated.
PS, I don't mind looking like a complete jerk when it means throwing other jerky and holier-than-thou attitudes back in people's faces.
The only jerky and holier-than-thou attitudes that have ever been present have come from the users who make demands and assert their superiority over the developers and the other users. But somehow I don't expect that this message will come across this time more than the other times I've tried. So, given that we do have the requested option, are listening when people talk, are explaining why we did things, and are considering changes to accomodate people I'm a bit confused how you feel justified in continuing to be an ass.
Sorry, but where is this setting? Haven't found it.
Preferences->Conversations->Show Buddy Details.
Thanks, it works! It removes the buddy icon, too, but better none of them than both of them. :)
Speak for yourself. I would really much rather have the icon back where it was, full sized so I could tell at a glance whose IM window it is. The current infopane takes up too much space with the buddy's name -- which I already have from the window title and any text that's been flowing -- and crams the icon into the corner so I can't tell what (or whose) it is.
See, I'm all for the other updates. The terser formatting bar, the buddy list popping up instead of "Another instance is already running" (been wanting that for awhile; but then, my mouse is crapping out on me and keeps clicking about a million times when I just try to double-click, so I've been more prone to this error than usual), and even the infopane if it could be executed in perhaps a better way. I appreciate all the work that's done on Pidgin, and yet each update brings about at least one annoying "feature" that I can't take away. I think I'll revert to the old version until the rough corners are smoothed out, if indeed they ever are.
It seems that the infopane was designed with the tabbed conversation windows in mind, though not all of us use that option. I know, tabs are a "killer feature" etc., I just don't like them for my IMs. I'm never talking to enough people to warrant collapsing them into one obfuscated window that I have to scroll through any time I want to converse with someone else. So instead of providing buddy info as I scroll through the tabs, the infobar shines a big beautiful screenname at me that I already had from the title of the window and basically takes away the buddy icon. I see they've added support for animated icons -- bravo! And yet, the icon is now so small and unnoticeable that this doesn't matter. Argh!
So, with this, I was finally compelled to register to voice my complaints and to file some Windows bug reports (or complaints, as it may turn out to be) if they haven't been already.