[Gaim-devel] Turning off "buddy list error" dialog box

[Ken B. <ka...@uc...>]

I use three different AIM clients (Gaim Alpha for Windows, Gaim CVS for
Linux, and pork [for ncurses]). Because each of these clients wants to
store its my buddylist on my hard drive, and synchronize them to ssi,
synchronization starts to get painful when I am deleting buddies,
because each other client finds the deleted buddies in its local file
and adds them back (or just fails to delete them from its local file).
My solution to this is that I am trying to go about turning off all of
the local buddy lists (by chmoding them to 0 and replacing the windows
buddylist with a folder of the same name) so that my AIM clients will be
forced to rely on AOL's servers for their buddy list.

Would it be possible for you to either supress the error message that
shows up when Gaim doesn't have permission to read its buddy list or to
put a checkbox in the accounts dialog that tells gaim not to store its
buddy list locally? (The second solution seems preferable)

I'm running gaim 1:0.60cvs20030226-1 on Debian, aliened from your
nightly CVS rpm.

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