In Ubuntu Karmic, It is not possible to alter the Alias field of Gadu-Gadu contacts in Empathy. Editing it in the Edit dialog has no effect - the alias is not changed. This doesn't happen for other account types. This is rather serious: Gadu-Gadu IDs are 7- or 8-digit numbers, and without the ability to give aliases, GG contact entries are rather useless (nobody is going to remember which long number is who).
Previously reported on the Gnome bug tracker: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600353
Does Gadu-Gadu support storing readable aliases for your contacts on the server? If not, Haze isn't the place to store them, and Empathy should sprout some local storage for protocols like this (which also includes SIP, for instance).
(In reply to comment #2) > Does Gadu-Gadu support storing readable aliases for your contacts on the > server? Yes. In the official Windows client one can export the contact list (including aliases) to the server. However, it works in batch mode only. You need to manually import the list as well to see the changes. I'm not sure whether it's a limitation of the protocol or just an usability bug in the official client.
To clarify the previous comment: in the official Gadu-Gadu client, the contents of the contact list in the UI is not tied to the contact list stored on the server. You can export the UI list to the server and import the server list to the UI, but they can become out of sync.
Looks like this bug no longer exists with empathy 2.32.0 and telepathy-haze 0.4.0.
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