Pidgin

Allow to select several contacts (e.g. to start a chat)

Bug #270895 reported by David Prieto
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Pidgin
New
Unknown
pidgin (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: pidgin

Pidgin is great, but starting a chat with several contacts is a bit cumbersome. I would like to be able to select more than one contact (using shift or ctrl), right-click one of them and choose "start chat". That would be a lot easier and handier than the current procedure.

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David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail) wrote :
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David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail) wrote :

By the way, allowing to select more than one contact would also be useful to perform the same action on more than one contact: IM two friends, get their info, send them a file, view their logs.

Any action that can't be performed on more than one contact (e.g. edit their alias) could just appear greyed out.

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James Westby (james-w) wrote :

Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to make this suggestion. I am marking this feature request
as "Wishlist", and confirming it as it seems to be a reasonable request.

In order to have the best chance of the developers of the software implementing
your suggestion you should consider reporting it directly to them upstream.

This page may help you in doing that:

  http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/TipsForBugReports

If you do this then please report the URL of the upstream bug report here
so that everyone can follow its progress.

Thanks,

James

Changed in pidgin:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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David Prieto (frandavid100-gmail) wrote :

I just created a ticket: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7098

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James Westby (james-w) wrote :

Great, thanks David.

I have linked the report in launchpad so that we can track the activity
upstream easily.

Thanks,

James

Andreas Moog (ampelbein)
Changed in pidgin:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in pidgin:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
James Westby (james-w)
Changed in pidgin:
status: Confirmed → Unknown
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in pidgin:
status: Unknown → New
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