Re: Make protocole plugins

2007-11-24 Thread Ethan Blanton
Anthony Catel spake unto us the following wisdom: I juste want to know how to generate Makefiles (Makefile.in, Makefile.am, Makefile) for protocols plugin (./libpurple/protocols/*) Running configure in the toplevel directory should create these Makefiles, same as all the others. Ethan --

Re: How to disable file sharing?

2007-11-25 Thread Ethan Blanton
Gary Kramlich spake unto us the following wisdom: Mark Doliner wrote: On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:55:02 +, mardahl wrote In order to use Pidgin at work, I have to be able to disable file sharing, but I couldn't figure out how to do that. Is there a way? Thanks, Steve Pidgin does

Re: Make protocole plugins

2007-11-26 Thread Ethan Blanton
Anthony Catel spake unto us the following wisdom: The configure file doesn't create Makefile.in. For exemple if I remove /libpurple/protocols/myspace/Makefile* : No, autogen.sh will; however, you should not remove Makefile.in, so that doesn't really matter. What is the root of this problem?

Re: [Fwd: Re: Make protocole plugins]

2007-11-26 Thread Ethan Blanton
Luke Schierer spake unto us the following wisdom: I'm tempted to say we ought to distribute autogen.sh since that and configure.ac are the forms we prefer to modify. I don't think it really matters either way, but I prefer to continue to *not* distribute it with the tarballs, so people don't

Re: www.bankingplans.com

2008-01-02 Thread Ethan Blanton
Vanco, Don spake unto us the following wisdom: Seriously mods - how long is this crap going to continue? Seriously kids - how many replies to spam are you going to send? I have one more reply to spam in my inbox than I have spams on this list. My filters may have caught some spams, but either

Re: System Requirements?

2008-02-07 Thread Ethan Blanton
clyde drexler spake unto us the following wisdom: What are the minimum system requirements for Pidgin? Can I install and run it with Mac OS 10.3.9? You can, but it will require Apple's X11 server (or an alternative) and a pile of dependencies that you probably don't have. Also, what is the

Re: Where can I find a list of signals?

2008-02-22 Thread Ethan Blanton
Kevin Green spake unto us the following wisdom: I spent quite some time browsing your developer website and API searching for a list of signals that I can connect callback functions to for my new plugin, but I can't find any. This would be really helpful. Look under Related Pages in the API

Re: Status Icon Question

2008-02-28 Thread Ethan Blanton
David Hampton spake unto us the following wisdom: I got into a situation once where a friend on AIM was IMing me from their computer, but all my responses were sent to their cellphone. Is there any way in pidgin to force messages to go to to the computer instead of the cellphone if the user

Re: Lost settings ???

2008-02-29 Thread Ethan Blanton
Etan Reisner spake unto us the following wisdom: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:16:18AM +0100, David Balazic wrote: I just noticed this in my pidgin 2.3.1 that I use for months: - smooth scrooling os turen on, even if I am 99% sure I turned it off - my picture disappeared, it is the default

Re: 2.4.0 Release Message Window Resize Issue

2008-03-01 Thread Ethan Blanton
Kai Armstrong spake unto us the following wisdom: I just updated to 2.4.0 this morning. As soon as I opened a chat window I instantly saw that the area where I type was almost missing. As soon as I began to type there it started to grow. I moved my mouse all over that area trying to

Re: Message resize behavior horribly broken

2008-03-01 Thread Ethan Blanton
Jason Kontkanen spake unto us the following wisdom: I checked the archives and saw that this is apparently intended behavior. Will the next release please make this an option? I had to downgrade back to 2.3.1. It might work for some people, but this is something I think needs to be a choice.

Re: Pidgin 2.4.0 and offline messages

2008-03-04 Thread Ethan Blanton
N.Novozhilov spake unto us the following wisdom: On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 09:55:57 -0500 Ethan Blanton wrote: I'm not sure what advertising you're citing, but we'll see what we can do about this. There have been quite a few fixes to ICQ offline messaging lately, but it still requires that you

Re: Two typing notifications don't make sense. What do you think?

2008-03-04 Thread Ethan Blanton
Patrick spake unto us the following wisdom: I dont like it! Please don't spam our lists from multiple addresses with barely coherent and content-free emails. If you have legitimate complaints, please put together a logical and defensible argument for a behavior which you prefer. In the case of

Re: Why pressure featuers you like your self?

2008-03-05 Thread Ethan Blanton
afceier spake unto us the following wisdom: 2. The removal of the _option_ to resize the text window. I thought first this was a bug, and wanted to confirm it on irc. I got it confirmed that it was fully intended. Then I got a hostile feeling since i didn't like the removal. For me the main

Re: Problems with compilatio at Solaris 10x86

2008-03-06 Thread Ethan Blanton
João Luís Camilo Borges spake unto us the following wisdom: Hi! I am trying to install pidgin-2.3.1 at my Solaris 10 x86. I run ./configure then it pass with some warnings but no errors. But, when I run make I got this error: This sort of error normally occurs when your perl was built with a

Re: Behavior makes me cry

2008-03-08 Thread Ethan Blanton
Niklas Bolmdahl spake unto us the following wisdom: But there is discussion here, and the devs are listening and taking peoples views into account. They have stated that perhaps this new functionality wasn't the best (side note, I didn't like it, but I'm content waiting for the next

Re: Is there a way for Pidgin to stagger window placement when not using tabbed ims?

2008-03-09 Thread Ethan Blanton
Luke Schierer spake unto us the following wisdom: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:28:51AM -0400, Greg S wrote: I prefer to not use tabbed IMs, bad experiences sending the wrong message to the wrong person. But is there a way for Pidgin to stagger each new IM window, instead of stacking them all

Re: Please change the 2.4.0 input field's resize behaviour

2008-03-09 Thread Ethan Blanton
I wish you had not started a new thread for this. :-P Sparkle! spake unto us the following wisdom: I would like to add my voice to those objecting to the new resize behavior of the Pidgin message window. I am not going to reply to this in detail, as similar messages are already dealt with in

Re: Font Issue and MSN File Transfer Speed

2008-04-02 Thread Ethan Blanton
dodolom spake unto us the following wisdom: I am new to the forum and I am hoping someone will be able to help me with my issue. The other day I changed the default font to a new font I downloaded which is working fine but now the font size differs from contact to contact. When I type to some

Re: All my Pidgin accounts have disappeared

2008-04-23 Thread Ethan Blanton
Follow Etan's continued suggestions on how to fix these problems; I have some other questions which I would like to ask to determine if we have not fixed some issues we thought were fixed. Barbara Kroczak spake unto us the following wisdom: I have happily been using Pidgin for over a year now on

Re: All my Pidgin accounts have disappeared

2008-04-24 Thread Ethan Blanton
Barbara Kroczak spake unto us the following wisdom: I'm sorry. I must have missed something. What were Ethan's questions? What version of Pidgin were you using, and on what version of Windows? Were either accounts.xml or accounts.xml~ 0 bytes? Ethan -- The laws that forbid the carrying of

Re: All my Pidgin accounts have disappeared

2008-04-24 Thread Ethan Blanton
Barbara Kroczak spake unto us the following wisdom: I'm using version 2.0.1 of pidgin. OK. We have put in some workarounds to prevent this behavior since 2.0.1 (they were released in 2.3.0). You might find it beneficial to upgrade. Ethan -- The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws

Re: Characters such as ö or ü in status description crash Pidgin

2008-05-09 Thread Ethan Blanton
Adam spake unto us the following wisdom: Characters like ü in status crash Pidgin. I noticed that when MusicTracker was changing my status and put in Motley Crüe in the status. Can it be fixed? Does this crash when you enter such a string yourself? I am aware of no such bugs. The

Re: Characters such as ö or ü in status description crash Pidgin

2008-05-10 Thread Ethan Blanton
Adam spake unto us the following wisdom: When I enter those characters by myself it doesn't crash. Also when MusicTracker enters them, it crashes Pidgin. And then makes Pidgin forget all IM account settings and forces me to set up everything again. I found that by editing ACCOUNTS.XML file to

Re: CTCP sound events under Linux Pidgin

2008-05-25 Thread Ethan Blanton
Conal Mullan spake unto us the following wisdom: I have the audio working on Pidgin Linux for default sounds, [using the aplay -q %s command in sound preferences] but when receiving a command like for example 'Received CTCP 'SOUND snd/Cymbal.au' (to #proi) from cisco' i dont get the

Re: Mailinglist polluted by LAUNCHPAD

2008-06-11 Thread Ethan Blanton
Michelle Konzack spake unto us the following wisdom: Now I am on this list since some days and already noted, that LAUNCHPAD is poluting the Mailinglist with singel unrelated non threated messages. Reading some of those clueless messages does not let me even guess, what the questionaires are

Re: doubt reg. TLS and GSSAPI

2008-09-29 Thread Ethan Blanton
Mark Doliner spake unto us the following wisdom: And so I'd like to point out that this decision negatively impacts the virtual hosting provided by Google's Apps. For example, when I login my [EMAIL PROTECTED] JID using Pidgin, it looks up the srv record, connects to talk.google.com, then

Re: doubt reg. TLS and GSSAPI

2008-09-29 Thread Ethan Blanton
Ethan Blanton spake unto us the following wisdom: Maybe we should do this: Only set the connect server to talk.google.com when a Google Talk account is created that is not @gmail.com or @googlemail.com That sounds appropriate. I'll revert my previous commit and change

Re: Pidgen uses ALOT of resources..?

2008-11-04 Thread Ethan Blanton
Dan Sørensen spake unto us the following wisdom: Im a happy user of Pidgen, but i have seen that Pidgen after i has run some time (a few hours) it uses about 25-30% of my cpu..?? Screenshot: http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/3003/screenshotud2.jpg If i shutdown Pidgen, and start it up

Re: Fwd Email

2008-11-29 Thread Ethan Blanton
John W. Moore III spake unto us the following wisdom: In the future it would be appreciated if You forwarded a Message Inline rather than as an attachment. Please do not recommend against best practices due to limitations of your own mailreader. Messages are properly forwarded as attachments

Re: building on mac os

2008-12-31 Thread Ethan Blanton
Michael Zech spake unto us the following wisdom: Ok, the message is clear: multiple arch doesn't work.. no problem for my mac is intel based. so i tried to export CFLAGS=-arch i368, i tried to add --with-arch-ppc=no to the configure options, i googled a lot, i tried to find out where

Re: Pidgin doesn't connect to MSN anymore

2009-01-05 Thread Ethan Blanton
Er Galvao Abbott spake unto us the following wisdom: Ethan Blanton wrote: Er Galvao Abbott spake unto us the following wisdom: I was trying to get a backtrace in Pidgin to post in my bug report http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7938, but now pidgin just doesn't connect to MSN anymore. I

Re: Possible to change charset in finch?

2009-01-05 Thread Ethan Blanton
Dave Wood spake unto us the following wisdom: Ok I'll look into that. Thanks. I'm using a utf-8 linux console (set in lilo) and my TERM=xterm-xfree86 as I find this a bit friendlier with other programs like screen, vim etc. I'm using a latin font - lat9w-16.psfu.gz - but I find various fonts

Re: Certifications and Accreditations

2009-01-16 Thread Ethan Blanton
Daniel Atallah spake unto us the following wisdom: 2009/1/16 ed.carra...@l-3com.com: What if any Certifications and Accreditations exist for Pidgin? Pidgin has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Law from University of Oxford. Which just goes to show you what a waste lawyers are. Ethan

Re: security question on MSN issue (your ticket 8175)

2009-01-26 Thread Ethan Blanton
Rodney Thayer spake unto us the following wisdom: I'm researching the cert glitch you describe as ticket 8175 (the contacts.msn.com thing.) To me this looked like an issue because the EV sub-root isn't in your root store. You don't seem to be describing it that way. If you want to chat about

Re: Google chat

2009-02-02 Thread Ethan Blanton
Cabe, Tracy spake unto us the following wisdom: I am trying to add Google talk to my Pidgin account and it seems to keep defaulting to XMPP in the protocol drop down instead of staying Google. Any ideas what I could be doing wrong? Google Talk uses an open protocol called XMPP. You're fine,

Re: When I press ENTER it does not send text

2009-02-05 Thread Ethan Blanton
Alan Hensley spake unto us the following wisdom: No Sir. I can hit Enter all day and it will on send the text message I typed. Again, UNLESS it is a private chat message. It sounds to me like you have inadvertently bound Enter to a menu item in one of your chat window menus. Look through the

Re: Google Talk

2009-02-12 Thread Ethan Blanton
Evan Platt spake unto us the following wisdom: At 05:52 PM 2/12/2009, you wrote: Please stop responding to requests for support. You are misapprehending more questions than otherwise, and misdirecting more users than otherwise. If you wish to continue, please join de...@conference.pidgin.im

Re: Linux live CD with Pidgin?

2009-02-14 Thread Ethan Blanton
Rob Stampfli spake unto us the following wisdom: On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 05:26:57PM +0100, David Balazic wrote: I believe Ubuntu has Pidgin. It does, but Ubuntu tends to stick with a given version of a package and only release fixes for security issues within their own generic cycle.

Re: Linux live CD with Pidgin?

2009-02-16 Thread Ethan Blanton
Richard Laager spake unto us the following wisdom: For the developers: I'd like to make the download link at pidgin.im go to the PPA for people with Ubuntu in their user-agent string. How do you feel about this, as opposed to serving them a tarball? Sounds good to me, modulo comments below.

Re: guification

2009-02-19 Thread Ethan Blanton
Kaushal Shriyan spake unto us the following wisdom: I am using Pidgin 2.5.4 on Ubuntu Linux 8.04 Desktop, I have enabled guification on pidgin. I am faced with http://plugins.guifications.org/trac/wiki/Guifications#Whydontemailnotificationswork is there a workaround for this issue This

IRC improvements (was: Group windows by account type)

2009-04-08 Thread Ethan Blanton
There were several things you liked; I'm glad to hear that, but there's not much to do there. ;-) These are the things you didn't like, or wanted to see different. Jo-Erlend Schinstad spake unto us the following wisdom: There are some things that has to be changed or fixed in order for

Re: pidgin suggestion

2009-04-09 Thread Ethan Blanton
Total Nerd Alert spake unto us the following wisdom: sorry i coudlnt find anywhere on the site to post suggestions. one thing that annoys me with pidgin is the fact that at times buddy groups from other protocols end up being merged with other protocols. my suggestion is that you keep each

Re: Disable the style when you copy paste something?

2009-04-15 Thread Ethan Blanton
(Copying back to the list -- please don't reply to individual respondents, but to the list.) siowalla312 spake unto us the following wisdom: I'm pretty sure this is a bug, and I think we thought it was fixed. What version of Pidgin are you using? latest of course, with some default plugins

Re: OSx sipe plugin any hints on getting the build to work

2009-04-16 Thread Ethan Blanton
Nicholas English spake unto us the following wisdom: I've been trying to build the pidgin-sipe 1.3.3 plugin as I need to access Live Communication Server (LSC) on our domain :-( The windows dll works fine but all my attempts to build one for OSX bug out. I've tried macPorts Fink - Pidgin

Re: Sellstuff.ie

2009-04-16 Thread Ethan Blanton
milesto...@eircom.net spake unto us the following wisdom: I am hoping you can help me. I am looking for and instant messenger service for my customers to use on my website www.sellstuff.ie. What i am looking for is a a link which i can place on each advert saying something like to speak to

Re: Logo licensing question

2009-04-20 Thread Ethan Blanton
Ralf Hölzemer spake unto us the following wisdom: i am here to ask a somewhat unusual question - but first some context. I made a 3D version of the pidgin bird in blender in order to create another vehicle for the game supertuxkart [1]. Now, the supertuxkart devs require to license such

Re: where is the voice?

2009-04-22 Thread Ethan Blanton
Luke Schierer spake unto us the following wisdom: For the record, I really really really hate April Fools day. That news was extremely ill-advised in any case. It should not have been posted. Ethan -- The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws [that have no remedy for evils]. They

Re: Support question

2009-04-28 Thread Ethan Blanton
Accurate Computer Service, Inc. spake unto us the following wisdom: Just a quick question. Is Pidgin software HIPAA compliant? Does it support 128 bit encryption? Thank you. This is not a reasonable question to ask; it is like asking whether a Dodge 4L 6 Cylinder is DOT compliant. If

Re: Buddy Pounce - problem with some Skype's contacts

2009-04-29 Thread Ethan Blanton
Emil Sekula spake unto us the following wisdom: I have some problem with some Skype's contacts. I don't get buddy pounces from them. Where can be problem ? We do not support the Skype plugin here. Ethan -- The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws [that have no remedy for evils].

Re: Support question

2009-04-29 Thread Ethan Blanton
Paul Archambault spake unto us the following wisdom: You're missing the point. I didn't say his answer was unreasonable, I said telling someone that their question is unreasonable was not the best choice of language to open a dialogue with. I think you misparsed my response. Asking the

Re: Getting Messages that are not for me

2009-05-05 Thread Ethan Blanton
richrichr...@gmx.com spake unto us the following wisdom: how can I change this? I'm receiving messages about pidgin troubleshooting from all over the world. I do not need those messges. How can I keep that spam out of my mailbox and what can I do to solve this problem? I need some detailed

Re: messaging server

2009-05-07 Thread Ethan Blanton
Jo-Erlend Schinstad spake unto us the following wisdom: I recommend OpenFire. It's an XMPP/Jabber server which is very easily setup, cross plattform and flexible. It can be connected to your LDAP server for centralized user management, for instance, and it has lots of plugins. I believe some

Re: your mail

2009-05-08 Thread Ethan Blanton
N.P.J spake unto us the following wisdom: is it possible to hide my i.p when using irc on pidgin? That is a function of the IRC network, not your IRC client. You need to look into the procedure for obtaining a cloak or user mask (or whatever your server calls it) in the server documentation.

Re: How to reinstall pidgin?

2009-05-20 Thread Ethan Blanton
Khom Raj Sharma Sharma spake unto us the following wisdom: I aam khom and a blind user of ubuntu 9.04 and pidgin. I made some mistake while setting up my account in pidgin so it does not work. I want to re install it but configuration file does not changed. I want it completely new

Re: Regarding codes used for Pidgin

2009-05-22 Thread Ethan Blanton
David Balazic spake unto us the following wisdom: On that regard: - me is listed twice in the /help for IRC Yes. - /say /me foo is not sent to channel, but interpreted as a regular /me foo command Not exactly. Pidgin interprets any incoming message of the form /me foo as an emote.

Re: Regarding codes used for Pidgin

2009-05-25 Thread Ethan Blanton
David Balazic spake unto us the following wisdom: Ethan Blanton wrote David Balazic spake unto us the following wisdom: - /say /me foo is not sent to channel, but interpreted as a regular /me foo command Not exactly. Pidgin interprets any incoming message of the form /me foo

Re: Regarding codes used for Pidgin

2009-05-25 Thread Ethan Blanton
Jo-Erlend Schinstad spake unto us the following wisdom: 2009/5/25 David Balazic david.bala...@hermes-softlab.com: Ethan Blanton wrote Not exactly.  Pidgin interprets any incoming message of the form /me foo as an emote.  You're actually sending /me foo to the channel, your Pidgin

Re: Regarding codes used for Pidgin

2009-05-25 Thread Ethan Blanton
Michael Secord spake unto us the following wisdom: I think the whole issue here, is that the /me is a good command, but when you add /say in front of me, it should NOT interpret the /me as the actual command, but just as plaintext. Basically using /say as the escape character that would

Re: Downgrading Pidgin

2009-05-26 Thread Ethan Blanton
Sameer Bhiwani spake unto us the following wisdom: I currently have Pidgin 2.5.1 and want to install 2.3.1 as it supports connecting to multiple XMPP servers with the same login/password. Not sure why this functionality was dropped int he newer releases. What do you mean, here? Pidgin has

Re: Downgrading Pidgin

2009-05-27 Thread Ethan Blanton
Sascha Vogt spake unto us the following wisdom: Ethan Blanton schrieb: Sameer Bhiwani spake unto us the following wisdom: I currently have Pidgin 2.5.1 and want to install 2.3.1 as it supports connecting to multiple XMPP servers with the same login/password. Not sure why

Re: boring emoticon

2009-06-09 Thread Ethan Blanton
manulo...@hotmail.com spake unto us the following wisdom: is it possible to hide received emoticons ? Some of people have to much emoticons in place of some word and it's impossible to understand what the say. Open up the account settings for your MSN account from the Tools | Accounts dialog,

Re: your mail

2009-06-21 Thread Ethan Blanton
David Chmelik spake unto us the following wisdom: Following is the display bug, which has been reported again this year, but I see no fix listed for. $ pidgin (pidgin:4199): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_display_get_name: assertion

Re: question

2009-06-21 Thread Ethan Blanton
Burcu maria spake unto us the following wisdom: I just downloaded your program. I want to know how to check who has blocked me. how do I learn that? Pidgin does not support this feature. Ethan -- The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws [that have no remedy for evils]. They disarm

Re: perl plugin installation issue

2009-07-01 Thread Ethan Blanton
Daniel spake unto us the following wisdom: Trying to load the purple libs gives an error. Does anyone have any idea what's mising? That simply isn't how the libpurple perl library works. It is usable only from within a libpurple client (e.g., Pidgin or finch, possibly others), and cannot be

Re: window location

2009-07-01 Thread Ethan Blanton
Rob Stampfli spake unto us the following wisdom: On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:18:51AM -0500, Mark Gehres wrote: I am running pidgin 2.5.8 on a Gnome desktop. I use multiple desktops and use 1 desktop just for pidgin. I want the IM window to stay where I put it, but when a new

Re: Setting the character encoding on an AIM account

2009-07-11 Thread Ethan Blanton
willywag spake unto us the following wisdom: I'm using an AOL Instant Messenger account with Pidgin. Occasionally I'll get a message from someone that gets replaced with the error message: (There was an error receiving this message. Either you and {screen name} have different encodings

Re: using BNC with IRC

2009-08-04 Thread Ethan Blanton
Dakota Bird spake unto us the following wisdom: Hi, I'm new to IRC with pidgin, and pretty new to irc in general. I'm trying ot use a BNC by entering a command using... /server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx username:bncCode As you have seen, Pidgin does not have a /server command. You need to create

Re: [Pidgin] for list owner

2009-08-13 Thread Ethan Blanton
Please do not reply to unrelated messages to start new mailing list threads. Steve VanSlyck spake unto us the following wisdom: As a spamcop user the subject line is the first think I look at in assessing whether a message is spam. It would be a tremendous help if the list would append

Re: how to track new releases?

2009-08-21 Thread Ethan Blanton
Christoph A. spake unto us the following wisdom: Today I saw that the mentioned feed, contains also forum posts and other things (not just released files) so I won't use it. What about creating an announcement list that gets automatically fed when a new release is published? We used to have

Re: [META] Public mailing list nature of supp...@pidgin

2009-08-24 Thread Ethan Blanton
David Woolley spake unto us the following wisdom: Although I'm not sure the French message was actually about Pidgin, the message also needs to make it clear the list is in English, or, better, should be localised to reference a list in the appropriate language. I don't entirely agree.

Re: question about film

2009-09-09 Thread Ethan Blanton
Kirkman Cadle spake unto us the following wisdom: hello, i have a question regarding using your program in a film. we're making an independent feature film and wanted to know about using pidgin in our film. My non-legally-binding and not-a-lawyer understanding is this: Instant Messaging

Re: Problems

2009-09-10 Thread Ethan Blanton
at 2009-09-10T12:04-0300, Raffo, Fernando Daniel wrote: Sorry Team for bother you, Im using pidgin, I make a misteke, Few week ago Im enter to the www.borrado.net web page and mi nick is modified for the comercial of this page, i thinks its a virus, can you help me please? I need to know wich

Re: Please support Audio and Video on MSN (was: hi pidgin)

2009-09-11 Thread Ethan Blanton
David Woolley spake unto us the following wisdom: security root wrote: how are u, i hope your fine i want asking about plus color in pidgin why don't supported and sound/webcam in msn Part of this may be that the necessary information isn't forthcoming from Microsoft. They are hostile

Re: Pop Up Notifications?

2009-09-14 Thread Ethan Blanton
Michael Wolf spake unto us the following wisdom: [snip background] If anyone has a copy of Gaim 1.5 for Linux, I would be very grateful for a copy. I don't care if Pidgin is considered by the community to be more secure. I have a good firewall and have NEVER had an issue with security in

Re: Inclusion of MXit plugin into Pidgin

2009-10-15 Thread Ethan Blanton
Pieter Loubser spake unto us the following wisdom: However we would still like to be a part of the standard Pidgin protocol family. As the splash-screen advertising is your biggest concern, we discussed it with our management and are willing to change the mandatory splash-screen shown at login

Re: password encription

2009-11-11 Thread Ethan Blanton
Pavle Zivkovic spake unto us the following wisdom: Hi everyone, I'm writing to you for the first time. I just wanted to ''notify (although I suppose that everyone knows that already) that pidgin, even though it is *THE BEST* IM program that I have seen (and i've been using quite a few of

Re: clarification in libpurple

2009-11-24 Thread Ethan Blanton
If you're going to spam a pile of mailing lists, please at least have the courtesy to do so with a single message, so that Message-Ids will be the same and de-duplication can be handled by more email-savvy parties. sai ram spake unto us the following wisdom: we are trying to develop a

Re: mails with no Subject: line

2009-11-27 Thread Ethan Blanton
at 2009-11-26T20:47-0500, John Bailey wrote: It's been threatened before to make all our mailing lists forcibly reject mail without proper subject lines, but nothing has come of that yet. For the record, I'm fully in favor of rejecting blank subjects. I wouldn't say threatened. I have in the

Re: mails with no Subject: line

2009-11-27 Thread Ethan Blanton
at 2009-11-27T00:36-0800, Evan platt wrote: And, require someone to join the list prior to posting. We have worked hard to prevent requiring this. I do not believe we want to require subscription for users to ask simple questions. I recall a month of two ago someone was under the assumption

Re: hi i cannot activate my account on pidgin 2.6.2

2009-12-01 Thread Ethan Blanton
at 2009-12-01T13:10+0200, Steven Godfrey (Retail) wrote: Please help me You're going to need to provide some actual information to get help. You can't activate *what* account? If Pidgin is something provided to you by your IT department (as I'm guessing by your giant multipart email with

Re: Jenny Chiu wants to keep up with you on Twitter

2009-12-07 Thread Ethan Blanton
Programmer In Training spake unto us the following wisdom: Seriously, lets get a rule going that blocks these. This was the first twitter spam I'd seen, and I put a rule in before you sent this. You doubled the noise. I'm tripling it, but only to prevent future annoying me toos. I expect that

Re: Name of head of Business Development or CFO

2010-01-04 Thread Ethan Blanton
Daniel Atallah spake unto us the following wisdom: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 06:47, Terri Westbrook terri_westbr...@yahoo.com wrote: Good morning, Could you please provide me with the contact information of your head of Business Development or CFO? There is no such person. Pidgin

Re: Ubuntu Linux

2010-01-09 Thread Ethan Blanton
e...@redgecko.co.za spake unto us the following wisdom: I tried installing pidgin on linux but when i try running it from the terminal with the command pidgin -n it tells me it is not installed trying to figure out what is going on but can not come to a solution does anyone else have a

Re: Fwd: When will this security bug been fixed?

2010-01-25 Thread Ethan Blanton
David Woolley spake unto us the following wisdom: Note to the authors of the guidelines; We take seriously are discredited words in stock replies. You really need to back them up by real statistics on time to fix. Every marketing department uses this sort of form of words, often

Re: problem with download

2010-01-28 Thread Ethan Blanton
Angie Stewart spake unto us the following wisdom: tried to download pidgin to my computer for instant messaging for my teenage daughter but got an error that told me to email pidgin for a new copy of the installation. it says installer integrity check has failed.common causes include

Re: help

2010-02-10 Thread Ethan Blanton
Mark Hylas spake unto us the following wisdom: My name is Mark speaking on behalf of the Market News tech dept. We are very interested in running your IM product on our desktops ( roughly 70 of them). I am trying to find out if there are any security flaws / compatibility issues that we

Re: Please help

2010-02-11 Thread Ethan Blanton
Programmer In Training spake unto us the following wisdom: Go into your modify account tab and deselect SSL Login for all affected accounts. The accepted soluton is to uncheck clientLogin, not SSL Login. Please pay attention to all of the other emails on the topic when forming your reply.

Re: Question about IRC accounts

2010-02-12 Thread Ethan Blanton
Phil Adams spake unto us the following wisdom: I'm using pidgin v 2.6.5-1.fc12 on a Linux (Fedora 12, 64-bit) system. For a specific IRC account, I find myself needing to execute a /nick username command every time I join an IRC channel associated with a specific account. This is because I

Re: SSL Handshake Error.

2010-02-13 Thread Ethan Blanton
Brian Morrison spake unto us the following wisdom: On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:18:06 +0530 Subramaniam Iyer subi...@gmail.com wrote: Am trying connect to a private XMPP server using pidgin on ubuntu and it errors out with SSL Handshake Error. This works when I use pidgin on a windows

Re: 2 processes after boot

2010-02-21 Thread Ethan Blanton
Evgeny Yamenko spake unto us the following wisdom: Hi. Is it normal that 2 processes booting? First one uses ~20mb, second ~7mb. After a few seconds the second one disappears. I'm using ubuntu 9.10. The second will actually be using only a few kilobytes of memory, most of that memory is shared

Re: Pidgin/Gaim Exploits and Updates

2010-02-25 Thread Ethan Blanton
Liam spake unto us the following wisdom: The update notification is a plugin? I didn't expect that, but thanks for letting me know anyway. Much appreciated. Shouldn't that perhaps be enabled by default? Maybe on Windows. On Linux systems having real package management, these sorts of

Re: pidgin keeps revealing my real name.

2010-02-27 Thread Ethan Blanton
Kate spake unto us the following wisdom: I'm trying to learn how to participate in an IRC chat room for a forum I help moderate. I need to use my alias to do this... but Pidgin seems to be pulling my real first name from somewhere in my computer or modem settings... apparently it displays

Re: Hello, why i see this popup window in pidgin???

2010-03-06 Thread Ethan Blanton
David Woolley spake unto us the following wisdom: PS Please do not try to force replies off the mailing list (you had a Reply-To header set). Please don't list police things like this. Setting a Reply-To header when sending to a mailing list (or when sending anywhere, for that matter), is a

Re: Leah Farber's Username and Password

2010-03-11 Thread Ethan Blanton
Dagobert Duck spake unto us the following wisdom: I guess this request was a fake or something. Somebody cannot be that dumb. Who'd one the one hand forget his password AND username, but then on the other hand be able to find the way to this support mailinglist instead?! This sort of

Re: help

2010-03-12 Thread Ethan Blanton
Programmer In Training spake unto us the following wisdom: On 03/12/10 10:13, Larry Lenenberg wrote: Yes, and just a suggestion, the “yours in Christ” is not really appropriate in a business email. This email was not a business email. PIT is a volunteer, volunteering to help you in free

Re: help

2010-03-12 Thread Ethan Blanton
Larry Lenenberg spake unto us the following wisdom: I have used Pidgin in the past with no problems, but as of lately it won't work. I have deleted it and reinstalled it a number of times and it keeps saying incorrect password and it won't re enable it. Please send your replies to

Re: Last seen ?

2010-03-26 Thread Ethan Blanton
Gordon Stewart spake unto us the following wisdom: does the 'last seen' record the time they were actually online ? Or when my pidgin actually saw them on (while I was on aswell) It records the time they were last seen, not last online. If you were not online to see them online, they were

Re: Time Stamps?

2010-04-01 Thread Ethan Blanton
Programmer In Training spake unto us the following wisdom: What's up with the loss of time stamps? I used those to see how long I've been away from a conversation. Press F2. :-P Ethan -- The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws [that have no remedy for evils]. They disarm only

Re: [libpurple] Privacy API questions.

2010-04-07 Thread Ethan Blanton
Programmer In Training spake unto us the following wisdom: On 04/07/10 11:59, Stephen wrote: Hello, I am relatively new in the realm of using libpurple, particularly in an application that is not Pidgin nor Finch. Recently I've been developing some functionality to display blocked

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