Activity log for bug #290552

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2008-10-29 03:56:05 Mackenzie Morgan bug added bug
2008-10-29 03:56:25 Mackenzie Morgan pidgin: importance Undecided Wishlist
2008-10-29 03:56:25 Mackenzie Morgan pidgin: statusexplanation
2008-12-02 23:10:58 Mackenzie Morgan pidgin: status New In Progress
2008-12-02 23:10:58 Mackenzie Morgan pidgin: assignee maco.m
2008-12-02 23:10:58 Mackenzie Morgan pidgin: statusexplanation Currently building in my PPA. Will need Jaunty users to test.
2008-12-03 01:39:01 Mackenzie Morgan bug added attachment 'pidgin_2.5.2.debdiff' (debdiff to change the default setting to only show on new messages)
2008-12-03 01:39:29 Mackenzie Morgan pidgin: status In Progress Triaged
2008-12-03 01:39:29 Mackenzie Morgan pidgin: statusexplanation Currently building in my PPA. Will need Jaunty users to test.
2008-12-03 01:40:02 Mackenzie Morgan bug added subscriber Ubuntu Sponsors for main
2008-12-03 06:03:08 Mackenzie Morgan description Binary package hint: pidgin As of Intrepid, the FUSA takes care of status-changing, which was one of the system tray icon's two purposes. The other purpose is to notify users of new messages. Currently, Pidgin defaults to "Always" show the system tray icon. This results in two "available", "away", etc. status icons showing up in the panel. This is both redundant and confusing. Pidgin already offers an option to only show the icon when notifying users of new messages. This should be the default to avoid duplicating functionality and causing confusion. Binary package hint: pidgin As of Intrepid, the FUSA takes care of status-changing, which was one of the system tray icon's two purposes. The other purpose is to notify users of new messages. Currently, Pidgin defaults to "Always" show the system tray icon. This results in two "available", "away", etc. status icons showing up in the panel. This is both redundant and confusing. Pidgin already offers an option to only show the icon when notifying users of new messages. This should be the default to avoid duplicating functionality and causing confusion. According to the GNOME HIG: Non-core programs for which a perpetual icon may be useful must default to not perpetually showing the icon. Users may select to enable a perpetual icon for the application as a preference. Additionally, the HIG states that if it does anything other than opening a window, it should be an applet, rather than showing up as if it was a notification icon. Citation: http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/desktop-notification-area.html.en
2008-12-03 18:33:45 Mackenzie Morgan description Binary package hint: pidgin As of Intrepid, the FUSA takes care of status-changing, which was one of the system tray icon's two purposes. The other purpose is to notify users of new messages. Currently, Pidgin defaults to "Always" show the system tray icon. This results in two "available", "away", etc. status icons showing up in the panel. This is both redundant and confusing. Pidgin already offers an option to only show the icon when notifying users of new messages. This should be the default to avoid duplicating functionality and causing confusion. According to the GNOME HIG: Non-core programs for which a perpetual icon may be useful must default to not perpetually showing the icon. Users may select to enable a perpetual icon for the application as a preference. Additionally, the HIG states that if it does anything other than opening a window, it should be an applet, rather than showing up as if it was a notification icon. Citation: http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/desktop-notification-area.html.en Binary package hint: pidgin As of Intrepid, the FUSA takes care of status-changing, which was one of the system tray icon's two purposes. The other purpose is to notify users of new messages. Currently, Pidgin defaults to "Always" show the system tray icon. This results in two "available", "away", etc. status icons showing up in the panel. This is both redundant and confusing. Pidgin already offers an option to only show the icon when notifying users of new messages. This should be the default to avoid duplicating functionality and causing confusion. According to the GNOME HIG: Non-core programs for which a perpetual icon may be useful must default to not perpetually showing the icon. Users may select to enable a perpetual icon for the application as a preference. Additionally, the HIG states that if it does anything other than opening a window, it should be an applet, rather than showing up as if it was a notification icon. See bug 291846 and bug 273220 Citation: http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/desktop-notification-area.html.en
2009-03-20 16:07:11 Andrew Starr-Bochicchio pidgin (Ubuntu): status Triaged Fix Released