Gaim annoyances

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Jun 13 02:11:46 UTC 2006


Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
> Thanks Rick, I got it figured out already.
> 
> On 6/13/06, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 07:26 +0800, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing
>> Lists) wrote:
>> > Annoyance No. 1: Mute sounds by default.
>> >
>> > I can't seem to find where this may be disabled or not. I'm not so
>> > keen to the idea of my headset beeping whenever I log in to gaim and
>> > forgot to mute the sounds.
>>
>> Tools->Preferences->Sounds.  Edit away.  Change what you want.
> 
> Hmmm... was expecting it to be a one-click mute all option though.
> Didn't expect that you'd have to disable each sound notice for each
> event.

Don't worry.  The next release of Gaim will have that ability.  I'm
running the Gaim 2.0Beta.

>> > Annoyance No. 2: No more flashing of the IM window when there's a
>> new message
>> >
>> > The flashing is too distractive. I don't know if this is a GNOME or a
>> > gaim feature though.
>>
>> Tools->Preferences->Conversations.  Enable/disable what you want.
> 
> I went to to Tools->Preferences->Plugins->Message Notification and
> unchecked "IM windows" checkbox on the "Notify for" category.
> 
> 


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