[Dapper Flight-6] First load of gaim shows "Add Account" dialog behind login window

Thanks for your bug report. Which version of gaim do you use? I tested with gaim 2.0.0beta3 and it works nicely for me.

Alternatively, that window shouldn't be shown at all. I had added that functionality, as I thought it was useful, but it turns out it's not (for this reason, among others). The user can still click the Add button. The barrage of windows upon starting Gaim is a bad idea.

Daniel, we removed that window in 2.0.0.

... on opening the account editor with no accounts, that is.

I was using the gaim included in Dapper Flight 6's install which was 1.5.1cvs 20051015-1ubuntu6

Confirmed with dapper betaCD candidate, we are not likely to work on that since that's a minor issue, probably not trivial to fix and fixed with gaim2.0beta3 already anyway. Patches are welcome is somebody wants to contribute on a fix for that cycle though. Marking as "Fix Committed" since 2.0beta3 fix it

It's actually rather trivial to patch. Here's the commit which added it. Simply apply this in reverse:

http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/gaim/branches/oldstatus/src/gtkaccount.c?r1=12293&r2=12932

I was rather speaking about fixing the "stack order" (ie: having that window on top of the other one), does it make sense to mask it?

The change in 2.0.0beta3 is to remove it... That is, back out the patch listed above. We figured it wasn't really necessary, as users could click the Add button.

This upload fixes the issue:

 gaim (1:1.5.0+1.5.1cvs20051015-1ubuntu10) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/09_dont_open_add_account_window.patch:
     - don't open the "add new account" window on first startup, upstream
       does that for the new gaim too, fixes the stacking issue with it
       (Ubuntu: #38448)