Comments on: Pidgin https://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/03/08/pidgin/ After eliminating all other possibilities, the one remaining-no matter how unlikely-must be the truth. Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:02:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 By: Krunk https://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/03/08/pidgin/comment-page-1/#comment-141144 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:02:48 +0000 http://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/03/08/pidgin/#comment-141144 I didn’t enable or install any extensions to get the positioning working.

As for CTRL+Backspace, if that’s the shortcut to delete the previous word, it’s working now.

]]> By: ångel https://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/03/08/pidgin/comment-page-1/#comment-141140 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:32:18 +0000 http://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/03/08/pidgin/#comment-141140 Initially I wasn’t having window positioning issues. It was after I decided I wanted to change my positioning again that it refused to cooperate. I tried uninstalling the extension (extpos) and even a complete reinstall of Pidgin to no avail. If the newer version just does this without need of an extension, that’s great.

I think the CTRL+Backspace functionality not working was a bigger issue for me.

]]> By: Krunk https://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/03/08/pidgin/comment-page-1/#comment-141061 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:30:29 +0000 http://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/03/08/pidgin/#comment-141061 I believe they’ve fixed the window position bug as I can exit Pidgin and restart pidgin and the buddy list and IM window would both appear in the same location as previous.

I also dislike the fact that you have to give aliases to every screen name instead of just a group of screen names.

The fact that if my friend has 2 screen names: abc and xyz and my buddy list is sorted alphabetically, the screen names would then jump up and down my buddy list depending on which screen name is the most active.

I’ve figured the ordering you have in the meta contacts matters. The order they are in is the order they’ll search in. So if 2 or 3 contacts in that meta contact group is active, it’ll default to the 1st one. It’s only if the 1st one is away or idle that it starts searching for the rest. I guess a feature like “do not automatically select” would be nice. That way you can still manually IM them through that SN, but it’ll never be automatically selected.

]]> By: ångel https://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/03/08/pidgin/comment-page-1/#comment-141059 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:56:48 +0000 http://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2008/03/08/pidgin/#comment-141059 Pidgin was the first time I’d encountered “Meta Contacts”, since I hadn’t tried out a trial for Trillian Pro at that time. I thought the idea was cool, but the implementation left something to be desired. It made me annoyed that I couldn’t always send to a particular contact regardless of current status; for example, I tended to want to send to people’s AIM contacts, but in many cases I also had a gTalk contact for them, and Pidgin would pick that if their AIM was idle/away.

I was able to get Pidgin to a pretty reasonable point, but there were a couple of issues that were deal breakers for me. I probably ranted about those in that post. The window positions constantly being reset really got on my nerves after a bit. I never managed to get Miranda to the point where I wanted it to be, and then I finally figured out my Trillian freeze problem and just went back to using it and Google Talk.

I actually tried the trial version of Pro and loved it, but not enough to justify buying it. =\ If the video chat functionality had actually worked, I would have been sold. The chat history was great, and I loved being able to put my gTalk contacts into the same IM client. I also found a skin that I really like (Stealth OS). I guess I’ll hold out and see what Astra is like.

]]>