Bug 25272

Summary:	missing feature: friendly names
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Fibonacci <fibonacci.prower>
Component:	butterfly	Assignee:	Jonny Lamb <jonny.lamb>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	patch
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
URL:	http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/jonny/telepathy-butterfly.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/25272
Whiteboard:	review+
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Fibonacci 2009-11-24 20:40:38 UTC

When chatting with an MSN group (e.g. those on http://groups.im/) on Empathy, I can't see the name of the members who write each message - I only see the name of the group.
WLM (of course), aMSN, emesene, and Mercury all display the right names on MSN groups. I don't know what the right name for this feature is, but emesene calls it "friendly names", so I'm sticking with that.

This has also been reported on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-butterfly/+bug/485017

Comment 1 Olivier Le Thanh Duong 2009-12-07 13:22:18 UTC

There is more information on the Empathy's bug : 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603172

Comment 2 Jonny Lamb 2010-04-09 10:44:16 UTC

To quote the illustrious Youness Alaoui from the empathy bug:

> The problem is that it's not the nickname that's being used in aMSN, it's the
> 'Friendly name'.. MSN has the ability to specify a "friendly name" *per
> message*.. this allows people to have huge ascii-art nicknames that do not
> bloat the chat windows when chatting. That's also what groups.im uses, I can
> confirm.
> This "Friendly name" is sent as a header in the message, the header is called
> "P4-Context". papyon supports it and sets it as the message.display_name on the
> event on_conversation_message_received.
> Telepathy-butterfly does not support it though.

Comment 3 Jonny Lamb 2010-04-09 10:56:45 UTC

There's currently no way to expose a new alias per message in the spec. I opened bug #27568 about this.

Comment 4 Jonny Lamb 2010-04-16 15:44:49 UTC

We don't actually have to wait for the spec change to go through and get released because that's just a list of "well-known keys".

Check out my patch.

Comment 5 Simon McVittie 2010-05-11 06:42:11 UTC

Looks good to me.

Comment 6 Olivier Le Thanh Duong 2010-05-21 06:59:11 UTC

Merged, this fix is available in butterfly 0.5.10
Note it won't work in empathy as of now since it rely on the Messages interface which is not yet implemented

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