Re: buddy list minimizes automatically

On 3/6/07, Charles Acknin <charles.ackningmail.com> wrote:
> Then I guess it's fine. Plugin's name and description
are clear enough,
> aren't they?

You overestimate people. People make this exact complaint
regularly.
Every couple of weeks. If nobody is actually using this
plugin, and
all it's doing is confusing people who loaded it because
they don't
know what "iconify" means, it's doing more harm
than good.

-s.

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On 3/6/07, Sean Egan <seanegangmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Charles Acknin <charles.ackningmail.com> wrote:
> > Then I guess it's fine. Plugin's name and
description are clear enough,
> > aren't they?
>
> You overestimate people. People make this exact
complaint regularly.
> Every couple of weeks. If nobody is actually using this
plugin, and
> all it's doing is confusing people who loaded it
because they don't
> know what "iconify" means, it's doing more
harm than good.
>
> -s.

I actually use the plugin.  However, i would not be against
it if you
decided to remove the plugin from the default gaim build. 
That is to
say, i would appreciate keeping the code around and current,
but
perhaps making it a --enable autoconf option.  Frankly, i
think the
plugin name and description should be enough to keep people
from
enabling it, but perhaps if people are being confused by the
name and
description, then the problem could be solved there through
renaming
and clarification rather than complete removal of the
plugin.

-2 pennies from me to you

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On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:58:28PM -0800, Sean Egan wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Charles Acknin <charles.ackningmail.com> wrote:
> > Then I guess it's fine. Plugin's name and
description are clear enough,
> > aren't they?
> 
> You overestimate people. People make this exact
complaint regularly.
> Every couple of weeks. If nobody is actually using this
plugin, and
> all it's doing is confusing people who loaded it
because they don't
> know what "iconify" means, it's doing more
harm than good.
> 
> -s.

This is exactly why we removed the hide-on-send plugin we
had some time
(some number of years ago now) ago.

luke

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