Is there a way to group / sort buddies by protocol and account?
I am using several different protocols, and several different accounts for some protocols. Sometimes I have the same buddies under different protocols or different accounts. The ability to group by protocol and account would make things more manageable for me.
I'm a Pidgin newbie - running Pidgin 2.4.0 under Windows XP SP2.
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this is something you could try. if you rename the groups of your contacts using the official messengers, then after you have done that open pidgin. pidgin will grab the group names so you will have a different group per id.
e.g. rename group "friends" to "friends-msn1" etc etc
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The currently available sorting mechanisms do not provide the ability to do this, however sorting mechanisms are addable from plugins so if you are able to write a C plugin (I'm unsure if tcl or perl can do this currently) then you should be able to add per-account or per-protocol sorting methods to the buddy list (in the same way that the current Manual, Alphabetic, etc. sorting options are available).
Also, are you intentionally trying to keep the buddy list entries for the same buddies separate or would combining them into contacts (right-click a buddy -> Expand, drag in and collapse) be useful to you? It would allow your buddy list to not list duplicate entries for the same person, it would allow you to have one conversation window for the person no matter what account you spoke to them on and it would combine the log files (in the View Log interface only) for all the combined buddies.
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Is there a way to group / sort buddies by protocol and account?
I am using several different protocols, and several different accounts for some protocols. Sometimes I have the same buddies under different protocols or different accounts. The ability to group by protocol and account would make things more manageable for me.
I'm a Pidgin newbie - running Pidgin 2.4.0 under Windows XP SP2.
this is something you could try. if you rename the groups of your contacts using the official messengers, then after you have done that open pidgin. pidgin will grab the group names so you will have a different group per id.
e.g. rename group "friends" to "friends-msn1" etc etc
The currently available sorting mechanisms do not provide the ability to do this, however sorting mechanisms are addable from plugins so if you are able to write a C plugin (I'm unsure if tcl or perl can do this currently) then you should be able to add per-account or per-protocol sorting methods to the buddy list (in the same way that the current Manual, Alphabetic, etc. sorting options are available).
Also, are you intentionally trying to keep the buddy list entries for the same buddies separate or would combining them into contacts (right-click a buddy -> Expand, drag in and collapse) be useful to you? It would allow your buddy list to not list duplicate entries for the same person, it would allow you to have one conversation window for the person no matter what account you spoke to them on and it would combine the log files (in the View Log interface only) for all the combined buddies.