Re: [Gaim-devel] Automatic friendly name update

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

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 12:00:57PM -0500, Rob Flynn wrote:
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
> > 
> >
> 
> This is where thing start to get messy.  I don't want to have five 
> million different fields for a user's alias...

Not millions, just two, and I don't think it's bad, if in reality you have
an alias for your buddy and your buddy have it's own nick why not have both
somewhere?

Anyway, if we don't have the remote_alias then we are suposing there is
only one alias, and what if I don't want to change the alias I gave to my
buddy, but I want to check which remote alias he has set?

What if suddenly a lot of my friends use huge remote aliases, but my girl
friend has a very special nick for me... I whould like to have an alias for
those buddies, and the nick of my girl friend to be auto-updated.

Which are the other purposals that fit those situations?

-- 
Felipe Contreras