Implement honoring muting (via Groups?)

[djha-skin]

I have several channels in the slack GUI which are muted, but which still show messages in Pidgin.
I would like to be able to mute them.

One method I have tried is by adding the channels in question to a pidgin Buddy Group, then disabling the "messages" event.

Under the current implementation, this is not possible.

I am hoping something can be done to allow this, either by:

• Automatically querying the slack API and figuring out which channels are muted and putting them in a " muted" group, with the "messages" event turned off by default.
• Allowing the user to just move channels around between groups (I realize this is probably not feasible).

Similar group strategies might be employed for other types of groups in slack, for example, possibly automatically making a " starred" group and putting stuff there as well.

What do you think?