Re: [orca-list] a question about pidgin's buddy type notification

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Still a bit confused, or at least unclear. 
Are you just talking about arrowing up and down the list, and pressing enter on a name,? 
And are you saying that when someone goes off line then their name remains in the list? 
I stand by never having seen this if the above is the case, and I'm assuming that you do not show offline 
buddies in your 
prefferences. 
Do I understand you to say that this is mostly happening with skkype, or does it happen with any of the 
protocols you use?
--
B.H.

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 02:57:45PM -0430, Luis González wrote:
> My buddies are orderer alphabetically; I use several protocols,
> especially GMail (XMPP) and Skype (with pidgin-skype). I've also used
> pidgin for a while (four years or more) and although I'm not
> completely sure, I don't remember this behavior happening before.
>
> Well, I'll try to explain it better. Suppose you got four buddies on-line:
> 1. Christopher
> 2. Henry
> 3. Kendell
> 4. Luis
>
> If Henry disconnects, Orca will assume they are all connected, so the
> list will be read as follows:
> 1. Christopher
> 2. Henry
> 3. Kendell
>
> But of course buddy #2 is not Henry anymore, so if you open Henry's
> chat, you actually will open Kendell's chat; and if you do with
> Kendell's chat (buddy #3), you will open Luis's chat.
>
> I guess this behavior is caused by Orca, which does not refresh the
> buddy list when someone disconnects.
>
> I'm using pidgin 2.10.9 and Orca 3.10.3
>
> 2014-08-23 11:44 GMT-04:30, B. Henry <burt1iband gmail com>:
> > First, how do you mean in wrong place?
> > Have you changed how your buddies are sorted?
> > Mine are in alphabetical order as I prefer this, although there are other
> > sort options in the menus.
> > I have never seen buddies shown once they are off list with the exception of
> > a couple times when for some reason I turned
> > the "show offline buddies" option on. I think there's an option also to show
> > a particular budy when off line even if this
> > is not the global prefference.
> > Other than possibly having changed one of these options accidentally I can
> > not think of anything that could cause such
> > behavior.
> > Message windows stay open unless you close them, or actually usually they
> > are tabs in a window, but perhaps this can be
> > turned off, I don't remember the option however.
> > Perhaps you have told me, or the list, but I do not remember what
> > distro/release you are using. That should not mnatter
> > though, never remember seeing folks stay in buddy list for more than a
> > couple of seconds when they go offline even four
> > years ago when I first started using pidgin.
> > I suppose it is possible that there is a bug with some kind of sorting
> > option, but never heard of it. Check your settings,
> > and let me know if you are still seing unexplainable listings and I'll try
> > and duplicate your results.
> > Which protocols do you use?
> > I'll start pidgiin now and see how it acts. I've used bitlbee with irssi
> > much more than pidgin for some time now, and have
> > gone a week or two with out starting even irssi, but I do use pidgin once in
> > a while, and likely always will unless
> > something revolutionaryly better comes along, which hoonestly I can;'t even
> > imagin at the moment.
> > Regards,
> > --
> > B.H.
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:04:29AM -0430, Luis González wrote:
> > > Speaking of Pidgin, when I'm reading the buddy list and some of them
> > > disconnects, Orca continues reading like that buddy hadn't done;
> > > reading the left buddies in wrong places (upper or lower than they
> > > really are).
> > >
> > > 2014-08-21 6:21 GMT-04:30, B. Henry <burt1iband gmail com>:
> > > > Correct.
> > > > Only a few of them will work, xmpp I think, maybe AIM, don't remember
> > > > for
> > > > sure what else.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:31:56PM -0500, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> > > > > Don't take my word on this, but I don't think all of the protocols
> > > > > supported
> > > > > by Pidgin support this feature. For example, I don't think you'll get
> > > > > this
> > > > > notification using IRC.
> > > > >
> > > > > On 08/19/2014 10:18 PM, kendell clark wrote:
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> > > > > > hi all
> > > > > > I've been using orca with pidgin for quite a while, and it works
> > > > > > great. I was looking in orca's prefs the other day and saw a check
> > > > > > box
> > > > > > labeled announce when your buddies are typing. I've turned this on,
> > > > > > but it doesn't appear to work. Is there a way to make this work or
> > > > > > does this need fixing in either orca or pidgin? This isn't a must
> > > > > > have
> > > > > > feature, but I thought it was pretty neat.
> > > > > > Note that I do actually have a couple of buddies, which I added after
> > > > > > the feature didn't work at first.
> > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > > Kendell clark
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> > > Salu2
> > > Luis F. González V.
>
>
> -- 
> Salu2
> Luis F. González V.