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------- Additional Comments From bugreports tittel net  2007-08-29 17:51 -------
I have played around a bit and think it works as follows:

When activating a global identity Kopete tries to set the nickname for all of your IM accounts on the server. This means that if I set my global identity to "Tittel, Stefan" I will show up as "Tittel, Stefan" to everybody. Even if I disable global identities again, "Tittel, Stefan" will be retained until I change it.

This behavior leads to two problems:

1) Kopete can't change nicknames for every protocol, at least it can't change the nickname on ICQ. This is why the global identity feature doesn't work with ICQ (it works fine here with MSN and Jabber though).

2) There is no possibility to just rename yourself locally. If I want myself to be displayed as "Tittel, Stefan" in my chat windows, I have to give up anonymity and show up as "Tittel, Stefan" to everybody else.

This approach used by Kopete to implement global identities is not very pleasant in my opinion. Kopete should make a difference between the renaming of nicknames on the server and what is locally displayed in chat windows.

That my observations are correct is supported by the following post from 2005: http://www.tehbisnatch.org/2005/05/26/svn-account-and-kopete-global-identity/

Obviously one of the developers of Kopete also thought of the code to be a bit hackish and started to rewrite the global identity support: http://www.rallyzeiros.com.br/wordpress/?p=5

If I understand him right, it will be possible to locally change your displayed nickname without changing anything on the server. Does anybody have news about the progress of this? Will it be in the next release of Kopete?
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