Pidgin needs better integration with Unity's global menu

For those of us already familiar with Pidgin, we know that the 'Buddy List' window and the individual chat windows have different menuitems (eg, chat windows have a 'Conversation' menu, while the buddy list window does not). No problem there.

However, with Unity's global menu, the different per-window menus in Pidgin can both lead to confusion, as well as some mental overhead. Here's a hypothetical example of what I'm talking about:

A user new to Ubuntu/Unity is using Pidgin, and discovers that he has to use Unity's global menu to get to Pidgin's accounts and preferences, and that he can exit the application from the [Buddies->Quit] menuitem. This works for him. But one day, he tries to quit Pidgin while a conversation window has focus, and so mouses over to the top-left to access the global menu. All he sees are the 'Conversation', 'Options', and 'Send To' menus - no 'Buddies' menu.

He'll either not be able to quit Pidgin, or will soon figure out that the main window must have focus first. Either outcome will result in some amount of confusion, and the latter will cause mental overhead because he'll have to remember this every time he wants to quit Pidgin.

Please note that in the above example, the user had configured Pidgin to minimize to the tray if closed, so quitting by using the Dash wouldn't have worked.

So with that said, Pidgin's menus normally work fine, since you can see them on the windows themselves. But with Unity, where the menus are at the top left of the screen, and hidden unless moused-over, it might be worth looking into making some menu-related changes to Pidgin so that it integrates better with Ubuntu.