[Pidgin] #9683: Make 'message too long' behaviour more user friendly

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#9683: Make 'message too long' behaviour more user friendly
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 Reporter:  shantzu           |     Owner:  rekkanoryo
     Type:  enhancement       |    Status:  new       
Component:  unclassified      |   Version:  2.5.8     
 Keywords:  message too long  |  
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 Hello,


 I sometimes have to send large chunks of text over IM and the 'message too
 long' error is pretty annoying and so is the behaviour (it just throws the
 message away and spits the error message).
 Couldn't it be made a little friendlier?
 My suggestions would be:
 If I have a message that is too long, it would be nice if pidgin came up
 with a messagebox that said:
 1) 'The message you're trying to send is too long. Do you want to split
 it?'
 And it should then split the message according to the maximum length and
 send multiple messages according to the length of the original message (if
 this is possible).

 OR
 2) 'The message you're trying to send is too long. The extra text has been
 deleted.' And it should leave the message in the textbox where you type
 the message and just cut it according to the maximum length. (I don't know
 what the maximum length is, and I'm tired of deleting one row at a time
 until I'm under the maximum length).

 I know i can just send such chunks of text over E-Mail, but it would be
 more comfortable if it could be somehow done over IM and I think this
 would also be a nice addition to pidgin.

 Thank you!

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/9683>
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