[Bug 99073] Re: There's no alias field for jabber accounts in kopete

[Arnaldo Janz Júnior (JJ)]

I took a while to test it again (and tested a bit quickly at the
kubuntu-kde4 beta version - I believe it's the latest release of kopete,
at least, for kde4.0.x) and, really the *only* way to enter an alias for
*one* jabber account is to do it for an identity.

Well, I don't know about you but, if not a bug, it's a really weird
situation (and unnatural behaviour):

* Imagine if you have several accounts into the default identity and
want one jabber account to have a different alias. You would expect just
to edit a field but you gotta create another identity and gain one extra
thing to manage (and get lost into, 'cause now you have 2 identities  -
at least one, undesired - , and, to make them to have the same data
(like picture, for example), you have to duplicate these data every time
you change them). And, look, you only wanted to use a different alias!
Not have to manage another identity!

* I'm not gonna take your time driving you through thinking if you have
a (or maybe 2) Google Talk (jabber) account(s), another jabber one from
your job (like I have), and a ICQ's, and a Yahoo!'s (and, who knows,
more ;-)  ) ... How many identities would you have to manage! And they'd
only be different by the alias ... The option would not to make use of
identities and set these data at the accounts directly but you can't
'cause they don't have appropriate fields for them (well, jabber
accounts - I think MSN's - and maybe others - do).

* I once changed the alias from my job's jabber account through PSI
(which I used there for a while), but I couldn't change it again through
kopete (which is far better in everything else) without changing the
whole identity.

BTW, by the same logic, having a picture field for jabber accounts
doesn't look so bad (and unneeded), does it? ;-)

The thing is, IMHO, an identity should have what you want to be global
and you expect to be able to change only specific data into accounts.
*That* is to make having identities an useful feature! It's something I
(and probably everybody) would want to use!

Ok, I'm sorry but, if that's the intention of identities, that sounds
like a bug to me, as you have no way to change specific alias (or
picture) for the accounts you want to.

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There's no alias field for jabber accounts in kopete
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/99073
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