Bug 518001

Summary:	Different block styles by different entrance
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Mark Xie <yxie>
Component:	pidgin	Assignee:	Warren Togami <wtogami>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.4	CC:	daniel_atallah, deryni, eblanton, lihuang, lschiere+bugs, mark, ndai, qzhang, redhat-bugzilla, stu, tools-bugs, yxie
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Description Mark Xie 2009-08-18 11:52:37 UTC

Description of problem:
The block style will be different when block the buddies by 2 way:
1) block a user by click it with right mouse -->block
2) block the user by "Tools -> Privacy -> Block all users"

By the first method, your status will be offline at the side of your blocked buddy. But by the second method, the blocked user still can find you are online, you just can't receive message from the blocked buddy.

This issue happens on MSN and Google Talk, but for ICQ, the appearence will be the same on the buddy side by the 2 methods.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libpurple-2.5.9-1.el5
pidgin-2.5.9-1.el5

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Block a MSN or GTalk buddy by right click it.
2.Check your status at the side of the blocked buddy.
3.Unblock it by right click.
4.Block the buddy by "Tools -> Privacy -> Block all users"
5.Check your status at the side of the blocked buddy.
 
Actual results:
Your friend will find you are offline at step 2.
Your friend still can find you are online at step 4.

Expected results:
Your friend will find you are offline at step 2.
Your friend will find you are offline at step 4.

Additional info:

Comment 2 Stu Tomlinson 2009-11-20 02:48:14 UTC

"Block All Users" doesn't work on MSN at all, this is a known limitation of Pidgin & libpurple privacy implementation on MSN.

The only options that are valid on MSN are "Allow only the users below" and "Block only the users below"

This is just an FYI for now, I know it needs improving.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2014-03-07 13:54:12 UTC

This bug/component is not included in scope for RHEL-5.11.0 which is the last RHEL5 minor release. This Bugzilla will soon be CLOSED as WONTFIX (at the end of RHEL5.11 development phase (Apr 22, 2014)). Please contact your account manager or support representative in case you need to escalate this bug.

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2014-06-03 12:49:06 UTC

Thank you for submitting this request for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. We've carefully evaluated the request, but are unable to include it in RHEL5 stream. If the issue is critical for your business, please provide additional business justification through the appropriate support channels (https://access.redhat.com/site/support).

Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-14 01:17:47 UTC

The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 1000 days