Another follow-up after discussing with developers of Pidgin. It turns out the "silent mode" I was talking about is actually an ambiguous localisation for "mute sounds", so it has nothing to do with getting-online notifications.
However, the default behaviour of Pidgin is to not display any notifications of this sort. The user have to install a plugin to get such notifications. I urge whoever added this behaviour in Ubuntu's Pidgin to reconsider their choice; let the user choose what they want to display. Forcing the display of unwanted notifications only encourages the user to ignore all messages from the indicator, which is a bad thing. -- Indicator-applet displays getting-online notifications from Pidgin even if Pidgin is in silent mode https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367865 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Indicator Applet Developers, which is the registrant for Indicator Applet. Status in Indicator Applet: New Bug description: The "silent" mode in Pidgin used to prevent the "X is now online" notifications from popping up when you're busy. Since Jaunty & the new indicator applet, this indicator displays all these notifications even if Pidgin is in "silent" mode, which completely nullifies this option. Nobody on IRC was able to tell me if this was a bug, a feature or a matter of configuration. Expected behaviour: When Pidgin is in "silent" mode, the indicator applet shouldn't display the "X is now online" notifications, it should only display the "new chat" notifications. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
