[OTR-dev] Pidgin plugin development and GUI look

[Ian Goldberg]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:41:08AM +0200, hcat at gmx.net wrote:
> Still having a simple "OTR: <StatusText>" or "OTR: <StatusIcon>" or
> "OTR: <StatusIcon> <StatusText>" on the right side of the toolbar
> would be nice because:
> 
> a) you mostly care about what you will get on the next send. If you
> type and look at the text box, you will notice a "not private" icon or
> red text there, but probably not notice those when they are only
> displyed at the top of the window.
> b) I don't think multi-account chats are *that* common. I have quite a
> few meta contacts with people who have 2-5 different accounts, but it
> rarely happens that accounts get changed during conversations.

I've checked in a change to move the OTR button to the toolbar (but
keeping the menus).  You'll have to enable "Show OTR button" in the
plugin config (the default should now be "yes", but if you've run the
CVS code already, you'll have it set to "no").

Tell me what you think.  In any event, I'd change the menu to look like
the ones in the menu bar.

   - Ian