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

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

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> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:06:49 -0800
> From: Ken Bloom <ka...@uc...>
> To: gai...@li...
> Organization: University of California at Davis
> Subject: [Gaim-devel] Turning off "buddy list error" dialog box
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> 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.
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> 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)
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> I'm running gaim 1:0.60cvs20030226-1 on Debian, aliened from your
> nightly CVS rpm.
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I found another bug: when changing an alias, gaim tries only to write it=20
to the buddylist file, and not to also change it by ssi. Hence, it=20
doesn't get saved when you don't have write permission to the local=20
buddylist.

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