Bug 24880

Summary:	Cannot rename Gadu-Gadu contacts in Empathy
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl>
Component:	haze	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	major
Priority:	medium	CC:	belegdol, dpc, tweenk.pl
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Krzysztof Kosiński 2009-11-03 10:01:16 UTC

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).

Comment 1 Krzysztof Kosiński 2009-11-03 10:05:44 UTC

Previously reported on the Gnome bug tracker:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600353

Comment 2 Will Thompson 2009-11-03 10:16:22 UTC

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).

Comment 3 Krzysztof Kosiński 2009-11-03 13:31:04 UTC

(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.

Comment 4 Krzysztof Kosiński 2009-11-03 13:36:32 UTC

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.

Comment 5 Krzysztof Kosiński 2010-11-21 03:28:41 UTC

Looks like this bug no longer exists with empathy 2.32.0 and telepathy-haze 0.4.0.

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