The option "show when offline" doesn't work, when a group comes with nobody online.

[lewis1274]

Binary package hint: pidgin

On MSN, I have a contact (contact X) with the option "show when offline" enabled. The contact is in a group with two others contacts. When all the contacts on a group comes offline, the group becomes hidden. When all the contacts of the contact X comes offline, the group becomes hidden, at the same time, Contact x become hidden even with the option "show when offline" enabled. Contact X should be shown even all the contact group are offline.

I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 with GNOME and Pidgin 2.4.1

Thanks

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[George Talev (gtalev)]

The described problem persists with Ubuntu 8.10 and Pidgin 2.5.2.

step-by-step:
- Un-tick the following options: "Show -> Offline Budies" and (!!) "Show -> Empty Groups".
- For a group ensure there are contacts that are "Show when offline".
- Restart Pidgin. For the test it is needed to have at least one of the marked contacts really off-line.
- Result: when Pidgin starts, the "Show when offline" contact which are currently off-line don't show, until tick and then un-tick the "Show -> Offline Buddies" option.
The expected behavior is to show the buddies marked as "Show when offline" contacts after Pidgin starts.

Note: if "Show -> Empty Groups" is ticked (means that empty groups don't disappear from the buddy list) - the "Show when offline" works as expected and marked off-line buddies are visible in the list.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try on jaunty? to be sent to pidgin.im by somebody having the bug

[xteejx (xteejx)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!