[Pidgin] #3727: Complex Log Viewer

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#3727: Complex Log Viewer
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  Reporter:  inf1ni        |       Owner:  lschiere       
      Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new            
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:  Patches welcome
 Component:  unclassified  |     Version:  2.2.2          
Resolution:                |    Keywords:  log viewer     
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by inf1ni):

 I mean you can use your shell or a file browser to do that... but wow that
 is such a waste of time. If you can do it directly from the program it
 would save tons of time. Seriously... it's already set up to do this. The
 directories are already layed out ~/.purple/logs/aim/inf1ni/someoneelse.
 Why not just use them to make a global log manager?

 Here is an instance where Pidgin gets killed compared to say DeadAIM.
 Someone you know is offline and you want to check a conversation you had
 with them. You have to go to Show -> Offline Buddies. Right Click their
 username -> View Log. Find that convo and then you have to set it back so
 offline buddies don't show. From a GUI perspective this sucks. And no I'm
 not going to waste my time to open up a shell or file browser and manually
 go through each one... or write a shell script to do something other IM
 programs already do.

 Here is how the same situation would have turned out with DeadAIM. I would
 click MyAIM (on the menubar) -> Log Manager.
 http://brandonz.net/zss/DeadAIM_Log_Manager-10.26.2007-04.43.28PM.png
 I would have been able to just go there, look at a list of everyone I have
 talked to and quickly browse through that with my keyboard/mouse really
 fast. Select the username of the offline person and browse their
 conversations.

 Logging is an essential part of any program that provides instant
 messaging or any type of chat. A global log manager would not be very hard
 to do especially because the directory structure that already exists for
 logs.

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