Version: 1.3.1 (using KDE 4.5.3) OS: Linux Pidgin has this option. If a person's been active in the last 20 minutes, his leaving and entering the channel are shown; otherwise, they're hidden. This way you'll know if a person you've been talking to left the channel, but won't be bombarded with useless messages. Reproducible: Always OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.36-zen1-20101109-stable-00321-g32771c4 Compiler: gcc
This is implemented in git master.