Re: [Gaim-devel] Automatic friendly name update

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

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:22:54AM -0500, lsc...@re... wrote:
> 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?

That has to be changed, the friendly name should go on another field, let's
say 'remote_alias', the 'alias' is never auto-updated, you specify it or
not.

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Felipe Contreras