[OTR-users] Can't enable logging with 4.0.0

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Wed Sep 5 11:52:08 EDT 2012


On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 04:43:47PM +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 10:26:35 -0500
> Karen Trudeau <karen.trudeau at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk>
> > wrote:
> > >> I don't know what the developers decided to do after a discussion
> > >> about this on the list a while ago, but for this new version with
> > >> OTR active you must override the default no logging policy on each
> > >> and every occasion you use it.
> > 
> > I don't think that's the intended behavior, as the release notes for
> > OTR 4.0.0 specifically say "When a private conversation begins, the
> > plugin will indicate whether Pidgin is configured to log the
> > conversation."  Instead what happens is that it ignores the
> > configuration setting, disables the log, and always says the
> > conversation is not being logged.
> > 
> > > I also assume you can turn this off in the plugin settings if you
> > > want to, but of course with the knowledge that it could frustrate
> > > the aims of the OTR plugin by doing so.
> > 
> > One would think so, but as I said the "Don't log OTR conversations"
> > checkbox in the OTR plugin configuration is reset to "checked" every
> > time Pidgin is restarted (and is completely ignored if it is changed
> > while Pidigin is running).  When I reinstalled 3.2.1, even though the
> > checkbox appeared to be "checked" in 4.0.0, it went back to unchecked
> > in 3.2.1--which would indicate that 4.0.0 is neither reading nor
> > saving the actual setting in the configuration file.
> 
> OK, I had not quite followed your description, so I wasn't sure you had
> unchecked the box in the plugin settings.
> 
> I presume that since this is a x.0.0 release, some wrinkles are to be
> expected.

Hmm.  Indeed sounds like a bug.

Jake, can you look into this?

Thanks,

   - Ian



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