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List:       kopete-devel
Subject:    [kopete-devel] [Bug 139115] Global identity isn't automatically
From:       Stefan Tittel <bugreports () tittel ! net>
Date:       2007-08-29 15:51:33
Message-ID: 20070829155133.1190.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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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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