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June 15, 2007
Pidgin's Developers Need To Stop Sucking: A Rant
So, I open Pidgin (which is like Trillian in that it connects to multiple chat programs at once, but it's Open Source and the file transfers actually work) and it says "Hey! There's an update with slight bugfixes!" And I go "I like bugfixes!" So I download and install... and it turns off extpos, the Window Position Manager. Now, this is a plugin that makes the windows remember where they were. Are you shocked that this requires a plugin? Trust me, I am too. I don't have any programs that don't remember where the window was last I used it, but Pidgin will open all windows in the very farthest left top corner every time. Which is completely fucking annoying, and renders my 2 monitor setup, one for doing stuff and one for chatting or referencing while doing stuff, useless. The extpos plugin fixes that. The latest release broke the plugin. There wasn't an update for the plugin, which I don't blame the nice guy writing it about, since he's just doing a little something to fix Pidgin, which works flawlessly otherwise. This renders Pidgin unusable for me and I'm sure many others. I had to downgrade back to 2.01 to make me sane again and not start screaming. (I admit, I have anger issues)
I understand Pidgin is open source, and that first and foremost they are developing for Linux. I understand this. And from what I understand, the whole Window Position Memory is build into the Kernel of Linux, so on a Linux box Pidgin runs flawlessly. But the moment they decided to put out and offical Windows build, they need to make the damn thing work on Windows, and without such basic functionality, the program is nothing but frustrating. The Pidgin developers either need to get the plugin guy on their team and package it with the basic Windows Distro, like a lot of other little plugins they have in there, or they should just stop making a Windows version. Seriously.
Okay, I ranted, and I feel better.
Posted by poetfox at June 15, 2007 05:09 PM
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