Comment 20 for bug 346840

I consider this a bug in Pidgin's goals, not the WMs. I don't understand how preventing focus stealing is "admirable" for any application other than Pidgin, which simply must be allowed to "effectively steal focus".

I also don't see how the Pidgin tray icon is now redundant, at least it shows me when I have new messages, unlike indicator-applet, which is just taking up space and not telling me anything.

A workaround for Compiz users is to add "title=Buddy List" to the Skip Taskbar section of the Window Rules plugin, although you will lose the ability to Alt-Tab to the buddy list.