This does not only affect Ubuntu, Fedora (F16) is also affected, so I think it's a problem with Empathy or Telepathy. It's not always the "nickname" of the vcard:
I have contacts without a vcard, then it's sometimes the username of the JID, sometimes the whole JID. Some contacts remain at my chosen alias, some others not. Some have the nickname field filled out with the nickname, some with the JID. Others have also filled out the "Full Name" field in the vcard, which also kind of effects this I believe. But: if a contact gets renamed automatically, the result is always the same. If a contact is renamed to his JID, he will always get renamed to this, never to his nickname or something else (until he changes his vcard maybe). I will try to analyze this problem a bit more next week, maybe with some test accounts. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/763884 Title: empathy automatically renames contacts to vcard nick Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: empathy Currently empathy automatically renames all contacts according to their vCard NICKNAME field on every start of the program. Afterwards it also updates the rosterusers nick on the server. This is extremely annoying if you manually renamed all contacts and just once starting empathy immediately causes a lot of work. Fetching the nickname is something that should only be done on the first start of the application. And even then the rosteruser entry should only be changed if no nickname is set manually yet. Additional, not really necessary, information Ubuntu: 11.04 empathy: 2.34.0-0ubuntu3 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/763884/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
