Feature Requests item #1265944, was opened at 2005-08-22 02:37 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by lschiere You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1265944&group_id=235
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None >Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: gr8dude (gr8dude) Assigned to: Richard Laager (rlaager) >Summary: Automatically retrieve contacts\' aliases Initial Comment: example: I have an existing ICQ account, with many contacts stored on my server-side contact-list. When GAIM connects, it syncs with the server and I can see all the contacts in my local list, but the problem is that UINs are displayed, though it would be reasonable to get retrieve the profiles and then display the contact names rather their numbers. Yes, I can manually right-click and change the display name, but this is impractical for the cases of long contact lists. I believe that an automation option will be a significant enhancement of ergonomy. This is applicable to all the Gaim versions I've tried, including the current 1.5.0 [I use the Linux version, in Fedora Core 4] Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2007-04-10 16:39 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 Originator: NO As we are closing this tracker, please submit any feature request that is still valid to http://developer.pidgin.im. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Laager (rlaager) Date: 2005-12-28 12:37 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=156487 I closed one of the tracker items you mentioned as duplicate. I'm keeping this one open and assigned to me. I'm really abusing this tracker item to remind me to implement this sort of thing for other protocols.... The ICQ thing is a bug and KingAnt has that assigned to him. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: pholie (pholie) Date: 2005-12-25 12:21 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1321263 No move since then? One more thing related to this issue is when you add icq account and don't select your own alias in the dialog, you see your UIN in outgoing messages instead of your nick. This should be retrieved automatically too. Btw, bugs 1362161 and 1379136 are duplicates of this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Richard Laager (rlaager) Date: 2005-08-22 02:54 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=156487 First off, this is a feature request, so I'm moving it. Second, I don't know what challenges this involves, but I want this too (for protocols other than ICQ). Luke, I'm going to assign this to myself so I can consider implementing it some day. If there is someone more appropriate, I don't object to you re-assigning. You're the expert. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1265944&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Gaim-features mailing list Gaim-features@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-features