Bug 120839

Summary:	Add buddy list sorting abilities.
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	Jerry Kilpatrick <kdebugs>
Component:	Contact list	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	armin.bruckhoff, ediaz, jikos, nicolas.riegel, paul.dubs, spatz, thenktor
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description Jerry Kilpatrick 2006-01-27 00:45:25 UTC

Version:           0.11.0 (using KDE KDE 3.5.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

Not to name names, but in another open source instant messenger program I've used I was able to rearrange the group order and also sort my contacts by various criteria.  The most important of which was to be able to sort my contacts by the size of their log files.   That way your more frequently talked to contacts are at the top of the list.

Other sorting would be fantastic as well.  Presently the two sorting abilities I REALLY miss are rearranging group order and sort by log size.

Comment 1 nils.schnabel 2007-02-17 00:47:49 UTC

Yes, after moving from GAIM to Kopete, I was happy with everything except that non-intuitive alphabetic order of my contacts in the list... before, my most important contacts were at the top, because it was sorted by log size. I would really appreciate a fix to that.

Comment 2 Jeffrey 2007-10-03 17:14:58 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 3 Helder Ribeiro 2007-10-19 21:58:35 UTC

I don't know about the other sorting methods, but sorting by log size (or recent log size) would be reaaally nice. :-)

Comment 4 Ivan Popjelev 2007-11-15 10:12:04 UTC

I really miss the 'sort by name' :( also sort by name online contacts and under all sort by name for offline contacts - not to be mixed

Comment 5 Will Stephenson 2007-11-16 10:23:52 UTC

*** Bug 113554 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Dror Levin 2009-02-27 16:23:25 UTC

Sorting by log size is the best, most compelling feature in pidgin.

Comment 7 Dror Levin 2009-02-27 16:24:32 UTC

*** Bug 182287 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Dror Levin 2009-02-27 16:24:55 UTC

*** Bug 122344 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 paul.dubs 2009-03-01 13:04:07 UTC

Now that importing pidgins history is added in #109942 it really would be great if this also could be added.

Comment 10 Roman Jarosz 2009-03-30 10:16:03 UTC

*** Bug 95539 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Roman Jarosz 2009-03-30 10:17:25 UTC

In trunk there are new sort possibilities (Manual/Status/Name) not by log yet, but it should be easy to add.

Comment 12 Thorsten Mühlfelder 2009-06-27 11:26:23 UTC

I'm missing sort by log size, too. This way I don't have to scroll down to see if interesting contacts are online.

Comment 13 Thorsten Mühlfelder 2010-02-19 13:20:30 UTC

BTW: Pidgin now has a new sort by log size. It weights chats in the near past more than old chats. Really nice feature.

Comment 14 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-18 18:28:19 UTC

Dear user, unfortunately Kopete is no longer maintained.

Please migrate to another solution, e.g. for Jabber a possibility is Kaidan, for Matrix a candidate is NeoChat.