Bug 25033

Summary:	[1.0] Consider renaming 'account' parameter to 'username'
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Will Thompson <will>
Component:	tp-spec	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	patch
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
URL:	http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~jonny/telepathy-spec/commit/?h=account-to-username-25033
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	68661

Description Will Thompson 2009-11-11 06:53:35 UTC

I just had to explain to someone that rather than parsing the last component of an Account's object path, they should:

• Get the "Parameters" property on the Account;
• Look up the "account" key in that dict.

It's confusing enough that there's a property called Parameters (I always get these two confused), but to have one of the parameters of an Account be "account" is perverse...

Comment 1 Simon McVittie 2009-11-26 04:51:45 UTC

Incompatible change => for 1.0.

Comment 2 Will Thompson 2011-09-08 04:02:53 UTC

Heh. On IRC, 'username' is your UNIX login name-type thing, and 'account' is your nickname …

Comment 3 Mikhail Zabaluev 2012-03-02 01:28:37 UTC

"username" is not generic enough, and may not even be obviously obtainable:
in XMPP you may not know your eventual bound JID until you authenticate with whatever the auth handler supplies for it (a certificate from your smart ID card, for example).

So, what was the use case?

Comment 4 Will Thompson 2012-03-02 02:11:31 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> So, what was the use case?

For renaming “account”? Just human confusion.

Comment 5 Nicolas Dufresne 2012-03-02 18:26:07 UTC

I totally agree that for what we use it in telepahy, username is better.

Comment 6 Jonny Lamb 2012-05-10 09:26:03 UTC

Here's a patch. Let's finally do this.

What do you think?

Comment 7 Jonny Lamb 2012-06-07 06:50:07 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> What do you think?

I've decided I can't be bothered writing yet more annoying migration code in mission-control right now; we've got better things to do.

I'll leave the bug open as it's still valid enough, but I'm removing the blocking bug.

Comment 8 GitLab Migration User 2019-12-03 20:20:22 UTC

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