[Pidgin] #918: Font buttons in the IM interface

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#918: Font buttons in the IM interface
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 Reporter:  paroxsitic    |       Type:  enhancement
   Status:  new           |   Priority:  minor      
Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |    Version:  2.0        
 Keywords:                |    Pending:  0          
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 I understand that most clients show a lot of buttons for font manipulation
 on the interface. Some people may use the bold, italics and etc while
 sending messages to friends. However, I feel like that "some" is a
 minority. I have never actually put a word to bold to give it importance
 in a IM conversation. I feel like IMs are for quick chat and non-important
 conversation. If something would require me to use different fonts and
 style I'd probably write an email or send a document.

 I'd like to see the number of buttons dedicated to changing the font
 limited down. Maybe just a menu that contains the font properties or just
 2-3 important ones.

 The current interface has 9 buttons that deal with fonts, and only 3
 buttons that deal with something more useful. I would like to see more
 useful buttons take the place such as a button for "Get Info", "Send
 File", "View Log", "Pounce".

 I find myself going to the "Conversation" menu all the time to do these
 things, whereas I have never used the font buttons. Oh wait, I have used
 reset formatting...once.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/918>
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