[OTR-users] UI-choices for OTR button

[Paul Wouters]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, 412MN wrote:

> But as far as I can tell the conversation windown "contains" multiple
> accounts but you will only see one at a time. So the button would just
> have to switch between these displayed accounts. Imagine I have a user
> with 5 different accounts (ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, jabber, GaduGadu) then I
> will get a conversation window with 5 OTR buttons (all in different

No, you only get this situation when you COMBINE your friends accounts
into one, and two of them talk to your 5+ accounts.

> > on how to deal with this problem are more than welcome.
> The pidgin encryption plugin (f.k.a. gaim-encryption)
> (http://pidgin-encrypt.sourceforge.net/) uses a small "lock" icon on
> top of the message window to indicate if encryption (in the current

Look in the archive of what the padlock symbol is unusuable for OTR.
It has been explained dozens of times.

Paul