Comment 0 for bug 250075

Binary package hint: pidgin

Dangerously placed next to Save As... in the Conversation menu, Clear Scrollback (Ctrl-L) cannot be undone, though there is a high risk for accidental selection of this item when trying to save the scrollback e.g. on mobile devices with imprecise trackpoints/-pads or certain touchscreens.

Therefore it shoud have an "Are you sure?" dialog (possibly with the option of disabling the latter for the future).

Otherwise, only the most experienced users will be able to immediately salvage texts lost this way from RAM nonetheless e.g. by something like
sudo strings /proc/kcore | grep -B 100 -A 20 recent_unique_keyword

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jul 19 13:12:30 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686