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------- Additional Comments From bugreports tittel net 2007-08-29 17:51 -------
I have played around a bit and think it works as follows:
When activating a global identity Kopete tries to set the nickname for all of
your IM accounts on the server. This means that if I set my global identity to
"Tittel, Stefan" I will show up as "Tittel, Stefan" to everybody. Even if I
disable global identities again, "Tittel, Stefan" will be retained until I
change it.
This behavior leads to two problems:
1) Kopete can't change nicknames for every protocol, at least it can't change
the nickname on ICQ. This is why the global identity feature doesn't work with
ICQ (it works fine here with MSN and Jabber though).
2) There is no possibility to just rename yourself locally. If I want myself to
be displayed as "Tittel, Stefan" in my chat windows, I have to give up
anonymity and show up as "Tittel, Stefan" to everybody else.
This approach used by Kopete to implement global identities is not very
pleasant in my opinion. Kopete should make a difference between the renaming of
nicknames on the server and what is locally displayed in chat windows.
That my observations are correct is supported by the following post from 2005:
http://www.tehbisnatch.org/2005/05/26/svn-account-and-kopete-global-identity/
Obviously one of the developers of Kopete also thought of the code to be a bit
hackish and started to rewrite the global identity support:
http://www.rallyzeiros.com.br/wordpress/?p=5
If I understand him right, it will be possible to locally change your displayed
nickname without changing anything on the server. Does anybody have news about
the progress of this? Will it be in the next release of Kopete?
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