Re: [Gaim-devel] Automatic friendly name update

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On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:20:07AM -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:06:27PM -0500, Luke Schierer wrote:
> > 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
> 
> I'm not talking about a lot of per-buddy functionality. This is the way I
> touhgt it should be done:
> 
> If I have an alias specified in my .blist file, then that alias should be
> used, if not, then the nick should be automatically updates. As easy as
> that.
> 
> That is talking about automatic nick updates, but independently of that I
> think a tooltip showing the remote nick whould help a lot.

that friendly name goes into the alias feild. if you auto-update it once, you 
will then have an alias, and it will not be updated again. how then would this 
add anything?

luke

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