That worked perfectly. I was bit confused about the 'thin bar' description. When you click the expand option it shows the contact twice where the first one is like a header. You right click the alias option on that line and select alias and it does not touch the Google contact.
It would seem to me a simple change if they could just change what the alias function calls since it does work using the expand option. Thanks Paul Gary On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Paul Aurich <[email protected]> wrote: > And Gary Quiring spoke on 01/04/2011 05:43 AM, saying: > > I have contacts where the name is very long. So I like to abbreviate the > > name in Pidgin so it just shows a first name on occasion or a nickname. > But > > when I assign an alias in Pidgin it actually steps on the first and last > > names in my Google Contacts. I don't feel Pidgin should be updating my > > contacts in the Google cloud. > > Pidgin (really libpurple's jabber prpl) sets the 'name' attribute for this > entry in the XMPP account's roster, which is treated as an authortative > set-by-the-user alias (which is what it's intended for). It just so > happens that (unfortunately to more than one Pidgin user) Google Talk links > this to the Google Contact entry. > > This has been reported before to the bug tracker, and the issue may still > be open (or might have been closed as "cantfix", I can't remember and > didn't look). > > You can work around it by right-clicking on the buddy, choose "Expand", and > set the alias on the Contact (the fairly thin row at the top, instead of > the buddy). This should set the contact-only alias, and has priority over > the buddy's alias. At least, I think that's what I just confirmed happens > via testing and code inspection :) > > Let me know if that didn't make sense... > ~Paul > >
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