Gaim pops up many popups for the same error

[Sven Herzberg]

I had problems connecting to an account this morning.

Gaim displayed a button with red text. I clicked that button; it disappeared and a dialog appeared with an error message. I left that open; gaim tried to reconnect some time later. The button re-appeared. I clicked the button: there are two warning dialogs open.

[Richard Laager (rlaager)]

This doesn't feel like a bug to me. You clicked to get details on two different connection failures. One could argue that if the error is the same, it shouldn't open two windows, but if the error is different, it's more tricky... If one error was "Connection refused" and the other "Bad password", should they be grouped together? I guess you could say the second one should replace the first. In any case, most people just close the dialog after looking at the reason (or clicking Connect), so I don't think it's something that really needs addressing.

I'm not the Ubuntu developer on this package, so if you feel this rejection is wrong, please change this to "Confirmed".

[Sven Herzberg (herzi)]

Honestly, I don't want to think about what kind of error this is. I either expect one of these two behaviors:

1. As long as the dialog is open (which might be required for debugging or getting support), gaim doesn't try to automatically connect (as there is a connect button that doesn't even get insensitive if the second connection attempt succeeds).

2. If a second error occurs (on the same account), add it (together with a timestamp) to the dialog; well, at least if the error is different.

Reason: I don't want to think in terms of connections (in which case you're absolutely right); I just think about accounts - the core question of IM is whether or not an account is online, not how many connections failed.

[Luke Schierer (lschiere)]

This is with gaim 1.x, right? The behavior should be better for you in any of the 2.0.0 betas.

[Sven Herzberg (herzi)]

The is the edgy beta:
ii gaim 2.0.0+beta3.1-1ubuntu9 multi-protocol instant messaging client

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

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? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

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!