Binary package hint: pidgin
It has happened to several users of pidgin, with various degrees of experience and computer skills, that when a file transfer finishes, they never know where did they saved the file. They have to remember which download location did they select, then open a nautilus window, and look for the file.
Maybe they don't have the "Clear finished transfers" checkbox selected, and could find where is the file by unfolding the "File transfer details" section in the "File Transfers" window.
All in all, it is a bit of a hassle and an interruption in the process.
It would be a nice improvement to show an inline message, directly in the Contact window if there's a chat open, saying "Transfer of file X has finished. Click here to open".
Or maybe instead of the "Click here to open" message, a shortcut which opens Nautilus and highlights the file could be provided, if we don't want people to start receiving files and opening them "too easily" (such as happened with some MSN viruses). This is just an idea, I don't know if that is possible with Nautilus.
I think this change, although looking like a minor improvement, would greatly improve usability of Pidgin.
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.