Pidgin does not show the correct protocol name and icon
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pidgin (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: pidgin
When I added an account to pidgin I specified that I want an google talk protocol.
Inserted all info and hit the save button.
In the accounts window I get an Protocol: XMPP and not the google talk icon.
Why? I repeated the process several times but keeps placing the XMPP ptorocol type.
Note: everything works ok but why it does not say Google Talk and google's icon if I said so?
This is very very confusing to me. As a normal user, i have no idea what xmpp mean and don't want to know. If I select "Google talk" from the combo, i want it to be "Google talk" and not something else.
I am using Ubuntu 8.04 final (clean install)
P.S: if you say that well gtalk actually is xmpp, well I'll say that from the user's point of view you are wrong because :
He sees a label saying "Protocol:" and a box from where he chooses "Google Talk", result:
Protocol: Google Talk
This is a usability bug!
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 26 16:08:14 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: pidgin 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686
Changed in pidgin (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Uh, but it is XMPP. It only says Google Talk in the dropdown so you don't have to fill in the server on your own. If it was a GTalk logo instead, then they might think they can't talk to @jabber.org users, which would also be very very wrong. GTalk isn't its own protocol, just its own server.