In pidgin we can send nudges to our buddies by typing: "/nudge" but i want to be able to send nudges just using a shortcut, like: "alt+z"

The default instant messenger Pidgin should have the option to use GnuPG (OpenPGP standard) to encrypt messages.

Pidgin supports OTR, but OpenPGP can be used for offline messages, too. And beside that: there are many clients out there, which only support OpenPGP encryption but not OTR.

We need more encryption. We tempt users to use Pidgin (because "it was there"). So we should provide all possible ways, to ease these encryption stuff up for everyone. It's difficult for most of the users, and additional compatibility problems are not helpful.

Essentially, this idea is http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/16978/ applied to Pidgin. I would like to see a plugin for, or even a modification to the base code of, pidgin that would use google translate to automagically translate the messages to and from the users native language.

Pidgin + Google Translate = Universal Communicator.

I know this is not important, but please make the status bar of pidgin less bully. Make it possible that the bar resizes with pidgin. Or that the bar is as big as the menu list.
Reduce the number of statuses:
Available
Invisible
Occupied: Visible, but not available and messages are delivered, when user is invisible or available again.
Away: Invisible and Occupied.
Delete Idle and Offline!

If One would allow only those 4 statuses, a big bar would not be necessary anymore and could be replaced by a small bar. In the textfield below user could type his message (and save it seperated to the status).

Pidgin (2.5.2) always save icons in ~/.purple/icons and never clean this folder.
Pidgin usually store all images that your contact use in this folder, and he never clean it, so I suggest a option in pidgin to delete this files when it isn't neccesaries.

How many times I have seen a newbie sending to a friend a picture from a camera. Usualy these pictures have a huge size, and the friend only wants a smaller picture.

My idea is to offer a auto-resize from the huge picture to a predefined sizes, (800x600, 1024x768, ...) and obviously the original size if it wants.

It's not possible now to send whole directory via Pidgin. The only way is to pack it into *.rar or *.zip etc...

In dialog window "add byddy" there are only 3 arrays: buddy name, alias and group. I think that there should be also array for UIN number of a buddy.
I also found one bug in Pidgin: Czech encoding doesn't work! It displays something like žx9e;x9e;e instead of Czech characters.

Off The Record (OTR) is a really user-friendly way to encrypt instant messaging.

OTR shipped as an optional plugin for Pidgin, but many users do not know what it is or how to enable it.
Since its advantage is clear and it works without much user interaction (especially it does not harm people on the other side not using OTR), it would be worth enabling it by default.

Okay, maybe the appearance on screen could be a little improved, but the rest is just fine... ;-)

The small arrow-icon in front of a buddy who is just going on- or offline is really a helpful feature.

But since some of the last updates, this arrow is black in both cases. Before it was green for online an red for offline.
That was intuitive.
Please change it back. :-)