Ubuntu
pidgin package

More intuitive way to set personal message

Bug #392482 reported by Felipe Contreras on 2009-06-26

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Pidgin	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	pidgin (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: pidgin

The current way to set a personal message is not intuitive: click you status (Available), click you status again, a box opens, type your personal message there.

Several alternatives have been proposed, but none accepted by Pidgin developers. There's already a plug-in that improves the situation:
http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-personalbar/

I'm an ex-developer so I can write a patch in one day if I knew it was going to be used.

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Felipe Contreras (felipec) wrote on 2009-06-26:

Also, it's one of the most requested features in msn-pecan (an alternative msn plug-in): http://code.google.com/p/msn-pecan/issues/detail?id=51

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Vish (vish) wrote on 2009-07-11:

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. Unfortunately a paper cut should be a small usability issue that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. I'm afraid this bug can't be addressed as part of this project.

This is an app specific bug , Not a papercut

A paper cut is a minor usability annoyance that an average user would encounter on his/her first day of using a new installation of Ubuntu 9.10.

For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project.

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status:	New → Invalid

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2010-08-25:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Do you get the same with Lucid or Maverick? Thanks in advance.

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status:	Invalid → Incomplete
Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Vish (vish) wrote on 2010-10-22:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.
To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New".

Papercut task was already marked invalid

Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Invalid
affects:	hundredpapercuts → pidgin
Changed in pidgin:
status:	Incomplete → Invalid