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philipl / pidgin-indicator

AppIndicator/KStatusNotifierItem Plugin for Pidgin
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Integrate into Pidgin natively #8

Open gluxon opened 10 years ago

gluxon commented 10 years ago

Hi Philip,

Do you have plans to integrate this into Pidgin natively? There's currently a ticket for this over at pidgin.im

https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/15597

I do also want to say thank you for your work on this. It definitely makes my life a lot easier and Pidgin usable again on Ubuntu.

philipl commented 10 years ago

The main issue is that it's a bunch of work I don't really have the time to do. To integrate it correctly would require refactoring the status icon code and accordingly modifying the existing status icon implementations. There would probably also need to be new logic to correctly identify when to use the indicator and when to fall back to the traditional tray icon.

On the other hand, the icon as a plugin is fully functional today - integration would only allow us to remove code duplication, not add any features - so it's difficult for me to justify the time and effort. Now, I'd happily support someone else doing that work and getting it in :-)