[Pidgin] #562: case for old icons: Advantagous heuristics of differentiated protocol icons

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#562: case for old icons: Advantagous heuristics of differentiated protocol icons
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  Reporter:  Ash           |       Owner:                
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  closed        
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:                
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0           
Resolution:  duplicate     |    Keywords:  icons protocol
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by merwin):

 What about this reasoning:
 I want to prune my contact list down on a certain protocol. I recently re-
 added an old Yahoo IM account that I hadn't used in a year or two. There
 are a lot of people on there that I want to remove, but I don't know which
 contacts are Yahoo and which are other protocols. I suppose I could mouse
 over each contact to find out the protocol, but that is very cumbersome
 and makes the process take much longer.

 What if Windows decided to hide the file extension because you didn't need
 it, and the only way to find it was to mouse over the file. It could be
 argued by them that the file extension isn't necessary, and the file type
 icon and type description should give you all the info you want, but many
 people want to see a little more detail. In fact, they do hide it... but
 they at least give you the option of putting it back if you like to see
 it.

 I just don't understand the argument of putting it back being complex, as
 it would just be an option in the configuration and another column in the
 contact list with the protocol of whichever contact is on-top.

 And to the people who say to write a plugin yourself to do it. I'm sure
 that many of us would like to have the spare time to write such a plugin,
 however most of us don't. Why is it so difficult for one of the existing
 developers to implement it as a plugin that is included with Pidgin?

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