Pidgin

Ticket #5350 (new enhancement)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 23 months ago

Encoding message errors look like normal messages

Reported by: VF Owned by: MarkDoliner
Milestone: Component: AIM
Version: 2.4.0 Keywords:
Cc:

Description

I was chatting with someone (both ends using pidgin) and they recieved the error "(THere was an error receiving this message. Either you and SN have different encodings selected, or SN has a buggy client.)"

Since the error message was presented in the normal message text area and not clearly marked, the user thought it was a normal IM and not an error message on their end. Pidgin should be more clear about what is and isn't an error message. Screenshot of the issue attached.

Attachments

screenshot1.png (3.2 kB) - added by VF 2 years ago.
Error in IM, not clearly marked as an error message

Change History

Changed 2 years ago by VF

Error in IM, not clearly marked as an error message

Changed 2 years ago by Sim-on

  • type changed from defect to enhancement

Changed 23 months ago by Sim-on

  • owner set to MarkDoliner
  • component changed from pidgin (gtk) to AIM

maybe someone can simply change the message-format in /libpurple/protocols/oscar/oscar.c (line 349).

Red and bold would be better I think?! And maybe Without the brackets?

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