Re: [Gaim-devel] Automatic friendly name update

[Luke S. <lsc...@gm...>]

Doing things on a per-buddy basis will be far easier when the xml blist 
is in place. untill then, it would have to be added by adding fields to 
the existing format, and re-writting the parser only to re-write it 
again as we move to the xml based blist. 
luke

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 03:51:11PM -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> 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
> 
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