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Bug#274217: gaim: "Always visible" flag on buddies

Subject: Bug#274217: gaim: "Always visible" flag on buddies
From: Ignacy Gawedzki
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:31:28 +0200
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 11:37:16AM -0400, thus spake Nathan Walp:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:11:01PM +0200, Ignacy Gawedzki wrote:
> > It would be very convenient to have a way to make some buddies always
> > appear on the buddy list, when the "show offline buddies" option is off.
> > Some people use IMs with "hidden" or "invisible" status all the time,
> > and this option could be used to make them appear on the list and thus
> > ease the sending of IMs.
> 
> There is a setting you can set on a buddy to do this.  It is not exposed
> through the Gaim interface at all.  If you set the "show_offline"
> boolean attribute on the contact node (easiest way is probably to do it
> manually in blist.xml, but make sure you make a backup), then the
> contact (and all its buddies) will always show themselves, no matter if
> they are on or offline.

Great, but then there seems to be another problem.  The "show_offline"'d
buddies are not taken into account as "pseudo-online" and groups that
contain only otherwise offline buddies are not shown (and thus the
"show_offline"'d buddies do not appear unless the "Show empty groups"
option is used).

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