Ubuntu
gaim package

Missing configuration options on latest gaim

Bug #68603 reported by Alexandre Otto Strube
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gaim

When in Dapper's gaim, you can set some configurations, as for instance, that "esc" closes a conversation tab.

Edgy does not, however the already-created configuration still works. But you can't set it anymore, neither unset something you did wrong just before the upgrade :)

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Jonh Wendell (wendell) wrote :

Hi. According with gaim hackers, new (2.0) gaim doesn't want you close window by pressing ESC.

There is still the possibility to get it working by reading its FAQ:
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq2.php#q24

In your case, it's still works because the old configuration you have.

Rejecting because it's not a bug, but a new 'feature'.

Changed in gaim:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Luke Schierer (lschiere) wrote :

just to clarify here. We didn't do this out of caprice, but because it was the best of several poor options for solving an interaction between the desire for different keystrokes and the need for accessibility and i18n input methods to work correctly. When faced with the reality that our preferences were in some cases causing issues with the ability of some users to input text at all, and for other users were not flexible enough, it quickly became evident that the *only* option was to delegate this to the gtkrc, for all editing a text file is less "user-friendly" than clicking a preference.

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