#10566: Quit Pidgin from Conversation window

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#10566: Quit Pidgin from Conversation window
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Reporter:  afcowie  |        Type:  enhancement
  Status:  new      |   Component:  pidgin (gtk)
 Version:  2.6.2    |    Keywords:              
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 It would be delightful if you could add a Ctrl+Q !MenuItem or Accelerator
 to the Conversation window.

 I use Pidgin for all my IRC and it is somewhat cumbersome to have to
 either move mouse to system tray + right click then select quit, or to
 have to unminimize the !BuddyList window and then focus it and then
 Ctrl+Q.

 If I could just Ctrl+Q direct from a [the, since I have them all in one]
 Conversation window it'd be brilliant!

 AfC

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#10566: Quit Pidgin from Conversation window
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 Reporter:  afcowie      |        Owner:              
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  new        
Milestone:               |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.6.2        |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment(by deadly7):

 This has got to be one of the most pointless suggestions I've ever heard.
 Seriously.

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#10566: Quit Pidgin from Conversation window
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 Reporter:  afcowie      |        Owner:              
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  closed      
Milestone:               |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.6.2        |   Resolution:  wontfix    
 Keywords:               |  
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Changes (by deryni):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => wontfix


Comment:

 A plugin could add a Quit menu item to the More... menu as well as adding
 a /quit command if it wanted to. This is definitely not something we are
 going to add to pidgin directly though, the possibility of accidental
 "damage" is *much* too high. People complain about accidentally hitting
 ctrl-l and clearing the scrollback in just the one IM window, I can't even
 imagine the complaints we would get if people started randomly quitting
 pidgin.

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#10566: Quit Pidgin from Conversation window
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 Reporter:  afcowie      |        Owner:              
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  closed      
Milestone:               |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.6.2        |   Resolution:  wontfix    
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment(by afcowie):

 > This is definitely not something we are going to add to pidgin directly
 though, the possibility of accidental "damage" is *much* too high. People
 complain about accidentally hitting ctrl-l and clearing the scrollback in
 just the one IM window, I can't even imagine the complaints we would get
 if people started randomly quitting pidgin.

 As you wish.

 I'd point out in rebuttal that people can Alt+F4 and thereby raise a
 !GtkWindow 'delete-event' signal, which, since you don't block it,
 frequently causes people to "randomly quit". Except it's not random; they
 deliberately [or accidentally, too bad] closed the application window, so
 no surprise all their conversations are closed/lost [the recent persistent
 conversation feature notwithstanding]. In any event, Ctrl+Q is
 consistently "quit application" throughout the desktop. People know what
 it means, and do it deliberately. {shrug} Doesn't seem unreasonable to be
 able to do it from the window you spend all your time in.

 I'll look into the plugin idea. Not sure I'll be able to achieve it but
 thanks for that suggestion. As long as your IRC experience is better than
 Empathy's I'd prefer to stick with Pidgin.

 AfC

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#10566: Quit Pidgin from Conversation window
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 Reporter:  afcowie      |        Owner:              
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  closed      
Milestone:               |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.6.2        |   Resolution:  wontfix    
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment(by deryni):

 Alt-F4 is not a pidgin binding and it therefore is not our place to mess
 with it (which includes prevention).

 Personally, I believe that a non-confirmed quit binding is, in general,
 just a bad idea and should not (by default) exist in any application. I
 think a confirmed quit binding is also a bad and shouldn't exist by
 default, but I can at least understand that slightly better. I also happen
 to think more applications should let you modify their bindings more
 easily, but that's another matter entirely.

 That being said I would argue, with what I imagine is virtual certainty,
 that people simply do *not* expect to be able to quit the application from
 random windows (imagine if you could quit an application from every dialog
 box).

 Adding an item to the More menu is simple (though as I noticed the other
 day also adds to the buddy list right-click menu and lacks a way to detect
 in which context the menu is being displayed), adding a command is also
 rather simple. If you need help with either of those feel free to join the
 #pidgin irc channel or devel@... XMPP muc room.

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