I think Pidgin should not display conversations in tabbed windows by default, or the default new conversation placement should be a new window, not a new tab. Reason: If the user is talking to Alice, and have her window minimized, and Bob then writes a message, the Alice window will flash in the window list, but no other notification will be given that Bob has started a conversation. If the user doesn't really care about what Alice is writing, this can cause them to not notice the (very important) message from Bob. The first time this happens, it's not at all obvious that the flashing name might indicate a message from a different user, and therefore I think this preference should be changed in Ubuntu from the upstream default.
What do other people think? -- Jonas -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
