Bug 23497

Summary:	Normalization of contacts hinders usability
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Alberto Mardegan <mardy>
Component:	butterfly	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	VERIFIED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	will
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Alberto Mardegan 2009-08-24 23:42:44 UTC

Hi,
  the contacts created by tp-butterfly have all a "#1" appended to their address, meaning that an addressbook application would store them with that suffix appended. This is obviously wrong, as it prevents another connection manager (for instance, tp-haze) to recognize these contacts.
I understand that this suffix is some kind of network ID, so it might be needed to distinguish between duplicate accounts, but I fail to see the need for that. The situation of having two IDs obama@whitehouse.org#1 and obama@whitehouse.org#2 at the same time online on your roster is (I guess) extremely unlikely, and even if that would happen the same person sits behind these accounts anyway, so even if they are not distinguable I don't see a problem.
But I don't know much about the MSN protocol, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

Comment 1 Olivier Le Thanh Duong 2010-02-01 05:52:04 UTC

Hi,
this bug is tracked in bug 25635. The #1 is not actually there to track duplicate account but to know if the contact is on MSN or Yahoo (since MSN support Yahoo contacts now)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 25635 ***

Comment 2 Alberto Mardegan 2010-02-01 06:01:27 UTC

Verifying as duplicate.

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