Bug 57347

Summary:	Don't fail when there someone else with the same nick
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Giovanni Campagna <scampa.giovanni>
Component:	idle	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Giovanni Campagna 2012-11-20 22:20:10 UTC

It may happen that one gets disconnected because of network issues. In that case, it takes a while for the server to disconnect the user (from 5 to 10 minutes).
During that time, connection always fails because there is already someone with the desired nick.

What other clients do, and I what I'd like idle to do, is autogenerate a suitable replacement name, such as "nick_".

Comment 1 Simon McVittie 2012-11-21 00:00:08 UTC

A subtle point to consider when implementing this: when renaming jbloggs to jbloggs_ or whatever, it's necessary to make sure that Mission Control doesn't think jbloggs_ is what we want to be called in future!

(Perhaps the awkward interaction between the 'account' parameter and the nickname in IRC will make that happen automatically, though. IRC is an irritating protocol...)

Comment 2 Danielle Madeley 2013-04-29 23:22:05 UTC

Annoyingly at the moment, you actually have to change your nick in Mission Control, so it can't be any worse.

Comment 3 GitLab Migration User 2019-12-03 20:10:04 UTC

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