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The link to a Carrier article seems to have been taken down, trying to go to the carrier article redirects to Pidgin (so I'm going to assume that it's gone now), and there appear to be no links to the Carrier site. I would like to know the rational behind this. If the carrier project is dead, there should be some mention of this, and if Carrier will not have its own article, surely there should be a link to the carrier site somewhere where carrier is mentioned on this article?Zeotronic (talk) 23:24, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
I've added a link to the project in "Software based on Pidgin/libpurple". It seems like a little more detail would be useful too. However, it seems like one user keeps trying to squash any information about it, but it seems very relevant to the topic. -- 98.154.*/13 March 2009. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.154.241.243 (talk) 06:24, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
The carrier page used to link directly to here, so it would make sense to talk about it. I restored the carrier page and then will just restore the blurb about the controversy causing the fork (it IS a very important part of Pidgin's history). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.64.22.229 (talk) 02:47, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
It was notable enough to be referenced from slashdot. See [2]. I'm going to edit the page to include additional references. Why is there a constant desire by numerous people to remove all references to Carrier from Pidgin's wp article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.64.21.103 (talk) 17:03, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
I fail to see the need of this section now; it's becoming a spot of blatant advertising for various clients and people revert to it for no reason? Just what is so special about a list of Pidgin-based clients? There's an IM software list for Pete's sake! 75.79.43.178 (talk) 02:16, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
Why was reference to Empathy's Voice and Video capabilities removed? 124.168.223.77 (talk) 15:06, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
"Funpidgin" currently redirects to this article, however it is not mentioned. If there's an explicit redirect, then i asume it is relevant enough to be at least mentioned.Thx. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.164.56.5 (talk) 12:25, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
I added a comment to File talk:Pidgin screenshot.png, concerning inappropriate licencing 121.44.27.165 (talk) 12:03, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
can someone explain why this screenshot is not centered and aligned to the left ? I can't seem to figure it out. furthermore, if someone would fix this, even better :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hugo 87 (talk • contribs) 07:49, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
New question
I have Pidgin 2.7.3 in Debian Squeeze. My Buddy List is similar to the screen shot here except that it has "Family" and "Friends" whereas I see "Friends" and "Buddies". Isn't a more recent screen shot warranted? Regards, ... PeterEasthope (talk) 23:57, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
I added the unbalanced template for the last section, current deficiencies. No other page on an instant messaging client has a section designated explicitly for deficiencies. I think notes from that section should be merged into other sections. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dmyersturnbull (talk • contribs) 03:35, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
There are never preview versions of pidgin, so I'd delete this from the infobox, but I can't seem to figure out how this template work.. could someone remove this? Thanks HuGo_87 (talk) 02:42, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
latest_release_version =
and latest_release_date =
. See the template documentation for more information. The various software infoboxes still could use improvement but these changes fix the problems with empty parameters resulting in the infoboxes showing the variable names. Tothwolf (talk) 16:09, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
+/-
link display is part of ((Infobox Software)). All of the software Infoboxes really need to be reworked to support these templates better, but dealing with the bad output of ((LSR)) and ((LPR)) was the first step. Do you think having the +/-
edit link for someone to add the preview version is a problem? Tothwolf (talk) 19:06, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
+/-
link available makes it easy to update. Another issue is the ((LPR)) and ((LSR)) templates use the article =
parameter to set the edit link used for the version number. The various software type infoboxes use the name =
parameter to set the link used for the +/-
. The infobox code is currently somewhat ambiguous as well. It currently only enables these subtemplates if the frequently_updated =
parameter is set and then uses an ((#ifexist:))
function to see if the template file exists before transcluding it. The link that is generated for the +/-
link is set up to preload a form template but the current infobox code will never make use of this feature because the ((#ifexist:))
overrides everything else. Try this link for an example of how the preload feature works.[3] reverted a section talking about the Summer of Code 2008 project to add integration with GNOME Keyring, KWallet, etc. I don't feel comfortable editing the page (as I'm involved in the project), but that SoC was completed successfully, it's just that the code has not yet been merged into Pidgin (it is slated to go into 3.0.0, because due to the way it works, it effectively needs to change ABI).
DarkRain42 (talk) 20:44, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Evening. The plaintext passwords criticism doesn't quite match the source cited. In particular, the link points out that only the user has read access to that file. And anyway, it's getting integrated with desktop keyrings. I'm way too tired to make changes in a way that won't end up immediately undone, can someone look after this for me please? 82.3.192.241 (talk) 23:57, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
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