On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:30:03 +0000, Calum Mackay wrote > thanks for the reply, Luke, apologies for the delay. > > > The plugin is intended for when you are kicked offline. that is, when > > you no longer have a connection to the server. you are not in any > > sense of the word that I understand, "offline" when merely kicked > > from a single chat. how would you word this to make this distinction > > clear? > > I think it's the use of the word "kicked" that causes the confusion > (and it's not just me, my colleagues confirm). Losing a network > connection, for example, isn't normally caused by any "kicking" action. > > Given that IRC, in particular, has a "kick" command that does > something else, and other IRC clients, e.g. xchat, have an "auto- > reconnect on kick" which does what I described in the bug - i.e. > after being kicked from a channel - I think the wording here isn't > helpful, to us easily confused people :) > > Perhaps: "when you lose your connection to the server, this > reconnects you" would be acceptable? > > Separately, would there be any use/point in me logging an RFE to ask > for the addition of a plugin to auto-reconnect after being kicked > off a channel?
I don't think it's been mentioned yet, but FYI this plugin is going away in Gaim 2.0.0. The auto-reconnect functionality is being moved into the core, and being made "always-on." Because of this change, this string will no longer appear in future versions of Gaim. For what it's worth, I totally agree with Calum that using the word "kicked" is misleading. -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
