Re: [Gaim-devel] Nick Autoupdate Solution

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Felipe Contreras spake unto us the following wisdom:
> I've been working on this nick autoupdate thing and this is the solution I
> purpose:
>=20
> nick =3D The remote nick, set by the server.
> alias =3D The local alias, set by the user.

The bullets you've outlined all seem very reasonable to me, with one
little clarification I'd like to make.

> o When changing an alias the nick should be displayed in the dialog.

It's fine if the nick is shown as a secondary data point somewhere,
but I think that the buddy's identity should be visible at this point.
Identities are guaranteed to be unique, nicks may not be.

> I've made a patch to implement all this and seems to work fine, I'll test
> it a while, and then upload to SF.
>=20
> Any comments? Could this be merged in the official code?

It would certainly stop a lot of crying.  ;-)

Ethan

--=20
And if I claim to be a wise man / it surely means that I don't know.
                -- Kansas, "Carry on Wayward Son"