Re: [Gaim-devel] Fwd: [Gaim-forums] [gaim - Users Helping Users] buddy list minimizes automatically 2.0 0beta6

[Charles A. <cha...@gm...>]

On 3/7/07, John Bailey <rek...@re...> wrote:
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> Gary Kramlich wrote:
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> > It could always be adopted into the plugin pack...
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> My thoughts exactly.
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> John

Although it sounds like a good idea, this does not prevent people from
installing the pack and enabling all of them just like they do now
with the default gaim build.

On 3/7/07, Sean Egan <sea...@gm...> wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Charles Acknin <cha...@gm...> wrote:
> > Then I guess it's fine. Plugin's name and description are clear enough,
> > aren't they?
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> You overestimate people. People make this exact complaint regularly.
> Every couple of weeks. If nobody is actually using this plugin, and
> all it's doing is confusing people who loaded it because they don't
> know what "iconify" means, it's doing more harm than good.
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> -s.
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When people don't know and use, it actually becomes critical enough
and relevant to keep them from using those -- risky -- tools by moving
them into the plugin-pack.

Charles