Re: Pidgin N900 Questions
 

Stupid question but: Why are we coding for pidgin instead of adding features to the integrated IM?

Second question, a little more smart: Is there a way to add Gfire as I have in Linux desktop?

Re: Pidgin N900 Questions
 

Since on the n900 it scrolls by dragging the contact list, is there still any way to merge contacts?

Re: Pidgin N900 Questions
 

I'm having a problem with pidgin. First my status somehow is stuck on "away" with a big box underneath that says "I'm not here right now".
It will not change to any other status.

When I tried to uninstall pidgin, it will not uninstall. It comes back saying "unable to uninstall Pidgin Internet Messenger. Some applications packages are needed by other applications."

Any idea what I can do?

Re: Pidgin N900 Questions
 

Hi, I am not recieving any sound notifications when someone IM's me, any way to apply that?

Re: Pidgin N900 Questions
 

Go to Tools, Preferences, Sounds Tab.

Check out the options there. Sounds for the built in default sound theme are not very high....

The sound waves are in:
/usr/share/sounds/purple

Re: Pidgin N900 Questions
 

Two reasons that I can think of:

- Pidgin has a set of features based on long time development, whereas the integrated IM has a minimum of features and tries to reinvent the wheel. The buddy list in a multiprotocol IM client and the contact list in the N900 are two different beasts completely. At least today.

- People don't want their every world wide contact to show up on their list when they want to dial out. Also, they do not want every people on their phone list to be able to see their online status. For instance, I would not have the pizza place see my online status, nor would I want the support dude on my foreign web host to list on my carphone kit.

All this could be fixed by adding multiple contacts lists, better filters and more in the integrated IM client, and most importantly, a good buddy list. But as it is now, I don't really feel using the integrated IM client is good enough to use.

In principle, though, integrated IM client sounds like an excellent idea... But several hundred names to scroll through when in a hurry to dial out doesn't.

Re: Pidgin N900 Questions
 

And now to the question that brought me to this thread...

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Never mind, I was using the menus wrong :x

Re: Pidgin N900 Questions
 

I agree with this, actually I now regret importing my msn account on IM since my address book is flooded with msn accounts, I cannot merge them since many people are not in my phone book and I communicate with them only through msn. I know I can filter but it is still time consuming.

Is there any way to remove the msn contacts that were added easily instead of having to either manually remove each or erase the contacts list?

Re: Pidgin N900 Questions
 

I would like to know about this as well. I installed the "extra plugin protocols" yesterday and suddenly my Contacts list has tripped in size due to all contact from yahoo and MSN.

Re: Pidgin N900 Questions
 

U can use groups to see only ur sim/phone contacts. I just want to get rid of all the im contacts.