Comment 4 for bug 346840

First off, this is not a duplicate of #340366; that is about the redundancy caused by the persistent messaging interface icon, whereas this bug is about incorrect behavior *introduced* in 11_buddy_list_really_show.patch:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ted-gould/pidgin/11_buddy_list_really_show.patch/revision/19?remember=20

This behavior is present in Jaunty final upon upgrading from 8.10.

Ted's comment[0] from the 15th seems to indicate that the thinks this is acceptable behavior. I don't care about "arms races"; if it's idiocy on the part of WMs that keeps pidgin from getting focus, don't respond with idiocy by forcing the window to show up on all workspaces. Incorrect is forgivable, but annoying is not, and this is *very* annoying behavior. If that means I have a pulsing pidgin in my taskbar instead of pidgin having focus - and I should note that the pulsing taskbar was the previous behavior, much better behavior, and was what I thought to be the intended behavior - then so be it.

[0]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/340366/comments/13