Re: [Gaim-devel] Block buddy option

[Stephen E. <spe...@gm...>]

Jesus!

The guy is not asking for a way to block multiple users, to block them
at some specific time, based on the devil's will or anything like
that. He is just asking for an easy and quick way to block buddies.
Maybe he only wants to chat to work people, or vice-versa.

So now people are telling him that this should go in a plugin. Fine.
However, Gaim is not Firefox, finding plugins and installing them is
too much of a hassle for common users. That is, if they know the
plugin they want is available beforehand. Or that plugins exist. It is
not as if Gaim is user-friendly enough already and a new context menu
entry will hinder usability.

And "those that want it" are the users. Unless they happen to be
developers, they are not going to be able to maintain it.

I agree that there should be a way to control feature creep. The
question is: who gets to decide which features are important and
useful and the ones that are not? Not the users, that much I know.


Stephen

On 9/25/06, Phil Hannent <ph...@ha...> wrote:
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> Ryan Barrett wrote:
> > On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Jorge Villase?or wrote:
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> >> I think there is a better option...  right click on the contact-> block
> >> I think this is so  much easier
> >
> > sure, of course. i doubt anyone would disagree that it's easier. the
> > question
> > is, is it a common enough use case to warrant a context menu item. it's a
> > tradeoff. remember, this is the project that brought you prefslash. :P
> You are right.  Ideally this preference should be in a plug-in, created and
> maintained by those that want it.
>
> Regards
> Phil Hannent
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