[orca-list] Pidgin issue with new conversations

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

Hi Everyone
I've just started experiencing a very odd, and very problematic, issue 
with Pidgin. I'm not sure what caused it, and I don't see any preference 
that looks like it would control this behavior.
When I open a new conversation to someone--i.e. I initiate the 
message--it works fine. However, when someone contacts me and this 
results in a new conversation window being created, I cannot focus the 
window at all. It's in the alt-tab list and is announced, but attempting 
to bring focus to it simply keeps me in the current window or, on 
occasion, will drop me into Pidgin's buddy list window. If I then 
attempt to open an IM to the person to send the message, I get the same 
result. As long as that window remains open, I cannot bring it into 
focus at all. The only way it seems I can close this window is to close 
down Pidgin and re-open it.
I'm not sure if this is a problem specifically dealing with Orca and 
pidgin, or if it's Pidgin acting up. Given the results so far I would 
say it's the lattter. But I'm posting here in case anyone else has seen 
this. Does anyone know what might be going on here?
Important versions: Ubuntu 8.10 (all updates applied), Pidgin 2.5.2, 
latest orca trunk