[Gaim-devel] Automatic friendly name update

[Felipe C. <al5...@ma...>]

Hi all,

First I want to say that I think that its important to know the nick of
your buddies, if you change your nick in irc you want other people to know
it (sometimes). It all depends on the person and the instant messenger, but
for a lot of people in msn the nick you set is very important.

That's why I think that if the protocol supports something like a remote
nick, then we should have the chance to know which is the nick our buddy
has set for himself.

Currently there is a patch made by robot101 that automatically changes the
msn friendly names if you want to, but I don't like that approach. I think
you should have the chance to decide for which buddies to update
automatically, and for which you set a static alias. On either case, you
should have some way to check the friendly name your buddy set, for example
in a tooltip.

I did a patch a while ago that worked fairly well, but my lap got screwed
and I didn't keep hacking gaim. I will try to make the best patch I can to
allow this behavior but I'll like to know if you guys will like this
approach.

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras