X doesn't close pidgin

[Nicolò Chieffo]

Binary package hint: pidgin-libnotify

with the indicator-applet patch, the obvious way to close pidgin does not work:
the window-decorator button X hides the window completely, and a user might think that pidgin is closed, because he won't see any window opened, nor any tray icon (unless he uses the pidgin icon-tray, which is useless now that we have the indicator-applet). The pidgin window in "hidden" in the menu of the indicator-applet.

The only way that I know to close pidgin is Buddies->Quit or CTRL-Q
We need a smarter way to close pidgin

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: pidgin-libnotify 0.14-1ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin-libnotify
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-8-generic i686

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

now it does for me...

[Tom Harris (tom-harris)]

Re-opening: sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't but I haven't worked out how to reproduce yet

[Ted Gould (ted)]

The current behavior is that it will turn on the behavior to keep the window open if the indictor applet has been used to hide it or you are logged off all IM networks. This was an ugly compromise for working with other desktops that don't have the indicator applet, but also may not have the status icon.
I agree that we need a way to distinguish these modes, but I don't know of a good way to do so. The same behavior happens if there is a status icon in the notification area.