With other IM clients - indeed, with most apps that have a systray icon - I can display the interface just by dbl-clicking the systray icon. With Pidgin it's variable - and therefore annoying :-)
If the buddy list is a minimised app in the taskbar, dbl-clicking the systray icon just seems to remove that.
If the buddy list isn't a minimised app in the taskbar, dbl-clicking the systray icon diplays the buddy list, and creates a task bar entry, and if the buddy list isn't on top it then takes 4 clicks on the systray icon to display it.
Is there any way of configuring Pidigin - or a plugin - so that it always displays the buddy list, or brings it to the top, with just a dbl-click on the systray icon?
NB. I don't want the list permanently on top.
TIA.
Spider
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I actually face the same problem and would like to get a solution. In a different thread, to be able to keep a better track of pending email messages, I was suggested to keep the pidgin window always open (not hidden) such that the window gets flashed and it makes it easier to identify, so I am actually doing this right now. So unlike before when my pidgin window is almost always hidden, I can't double click on the tray icon to find it anymore, as the first double click would hide it and the second one would show. This is frustrating to me as well based on how many times I end up doing this in a day.
I am considering this actually as a buggy behavior and so opened a bug, but I don't know if I did it in the right place. I can't find a bug tracking system for this project, the closes I found is a patch tracker. Is this the right place?
The tray icon in the next version of pidgin (hopefully, it may take a couple of versions depending on how things move along, I'm not sure) should have more consistent click handling (at least on Windows, on linux I believe it to be largely consistent at the moment, though perhaps it isn't I don't use it). There has been recent mailing list discussion of this (and related issues).
In general though, using the tray icon to locate your buddy list window is the sign of a poor window management environment. For example I can call up my buddy list window from wherever I am by pushing alt-g.
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> The tray icon in the next version of pidgin ... should have more consistent click handling
That's good to know.
> In general though, using the tray icon to locate your buddy list window is the
> sign of a poor window management environment. For example I can call up my buddy
> list window from wherever I am by pushing alt-g
Providing access to apps that are minimized to it is one of the functions of the system tray, so it could be argued that a tray icon with inconsistent behaviour is a sign of a poorly implemented tray icon :-)
Beyond that, of course, people can set up whatever shortcuts or presets make their life easier.
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Notably, the discussion here is *not* about the behavior when pidgin is minimized to the system tray as *that* behavior is always consistent, since there is only ever one option there. The behavior at issue here is in all of the *other* cases, obscured, partially obscured, on top.
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With other IM clients - indeed, with most apps that have a systray icon - I can display the interface just by dbl-clicking the systray icon. With Pidgin it's variable - and therefore annoying :-)
If the buddy list is a minimised app in the taskbar, dbl-clicking the systray icon just seems to remove that.
If the buddy list isn't a minimised app in the taskbar, dbl-clicking the systray icon diplays the buddy list, and creates a task bar entry, and if the buddy list isn't on top it then takes 4 clicks on the systray icon to display it.
Is there any way of configuring Pidigin - or a plugin - so that it always displays the buddy list, or brings it to the top, with just a dbl-click on the systray icon?
NB. I don't want the list permanently on top.
TIA.
Spider
I actually face the same problem and would like to get a solution. In a different thread, to be able to keep a better track of pending email messages, I was suggested to keep the pidgin window always open (not hidden) such that the window gets flashed and it makes it easier to identify, so I am actually doing this right now. So unlike before when my pidgin window is almost always hidden, I can't double click on the tray icon to find it anymore, as the first double click would hide it and the second one would show. This is frustrating to me as well based on how many times I end up doing this in a day.
I am considering this actually as a buggy behavior and so opened a bug, but I don't know if I did it in the right place. I can't find a bug tracking system for this project, the closes I found is a patch tracker. Is this the right place?
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1822870&group_id=235&atid=300235
The tray icon in the next version of pidgin (hopefully, it may take a couple of versions depending on how things move along, I'm not sure) should have more consistent click handling (at least on Windows, on linux I believe it to be largely consistent at the moment, though perhaps it isn't I don't use it). There has been recent mailing list discussion of this (and related issues).
In general though, using the tray icon to locate your buddy list window is the sign of a poor window management environment. For example I can call up my buddy list window from wherever I am by pushing alt-g.
> The tray icon in the next version of pidgin ... should have more consistent click handling
That's good to know.
> In general though, using the tray icon to locate your buddy list window is the
> sign of a poor window management environment. For example I can call up my buddy
> list window from wherever I am by pushing alt-g
Providing access to apps that are minimized to it is one of the functions of the system tray, so it could be argued that a tray icon with inconsistent behaviour is a sign of a poorly implemented tray icon :-)
Beyond that, of course, people can set up whatever shortcuts or presets make their life easier.
Notably, the discussion here is *not* about the behavior when pidgin is minimized to the system tray as *that* behavior is always consistent, since there is only ever one option there. The behavior at issue here is in all of the *other* cases, obscured, partially obscured, on top.
Created the bug it in the right location this time:
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/3780