#848 Nickname not displayed for in-session contacts

[Franz Zieris]

It's possible to rename your contacts (at least as long as they are not part of the session, see [bugs:#842]). However, if they are in a session with you, their JID is displayed instead of the nickname you gave them.

[Stefan Rossbach]

You cannot assign session nicknames. All users can choose their own session nickname which is independent from the XMPP nickname in the roster.

[Franz Zieris]

The AGSE agreed on the following: We like the nickname feature as it was, i.e. you can rename your contacts at will (as in a variety of chat clients). You can choose your own name when you create your account, so there is absolutely no need to have a "session nickname" (ticket for removal of that feature is coming).

[Franz Zieris]

Here it is: [bugs:#849]

[Stefan Rossbach]

Maybe you should try a session with 5 users where each user has different nicknames for each user. Should be an excellent mess when you do not know the other persons very well.

Maybe you can also explain me why it is not possible to choose my own colors for the session users. Consistency ?

[Franz Zieris]

I don't see a reason why anyone should (1) do a five user session, (2) with people you don't know, (3) where all of them rename the other ones randomly. Did you really get user feedback for such a scenario? And the request to add a "session nickname" in addition to the existing "rename feature" to solve that "problem"?

[Stefan Rossbach]

At least I am glad that I can stop working on the XMPP Link Local feature regarding this "bug".

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11.5 User Interface

The presence name to be used for display in a serverless "roster" SHOULD be obtained from the <Instance> portion of the received PTR record for each user; however, the client MAY instead display a name or nickname derived from the TXT record if available.

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http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0174.html#registrar

[Franz Zieris]

For the user, Saros is not Yet-Another-XMPP-Client, but a tool for distributed collaborative programming. Using XMPP network-wise, the user has to choose an account name for himself, and we think that his/her colleagues should be able to organize their contacts in a way that suits them. Personally, I like to give my contacts prefixes, and I don't care about the server part of their account name: instead of john.doe@foomail.com and jane.doe@saros-con.imp.fu-berlin.de my contact lists has the entries [Private] John Doe and [Work/DPP] Jane Doe.

So what was your point again?

[Stefan Rossbach]

Feature (session nickname) was removed and never went live.