Bug 125465

Summary:	Yahoo group chat does not show custom alias for contacts
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	Andre Srinivasan <andre>
Component:	Chat Window	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	des, thomasvk
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Andre Srinivasan 2006-04-13 03:18:33 UTC

Version:           0.11.93 (0.12 Beta 2) (using KDE 3.5.2-1.2.fc4.kde, Fedora Core release 4 (Stentz))
Compiler:          Target: i386-redhat-linux
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.16-1.2069_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2

Rather than displaying the custom aliases I have created for contacts, the list of people in a Yahoo chat uses the actual contact name.

Comment 1 Matt Rogers 2006-04-14 18:27:28 UTC

the chatwindow doesn't use the custom aliases for the metacontact on purpose. If this is different from how a normal IM behaves (i.e. you and one other person messaging back and forth) then we need to normalize the behavior.

also, what list are you talking about?

Comment 2 Andre Srinivasan 2006-04-14 18:56:00 UTC

When remote messaging parties are displayed in a normal IM, their custom alias is used which is different from the group chat.  I would hope that if a custom alias  is defined, the custom alias is always be used.

What I described poorly above was actually referring to the list of chat members that appear to the side of the chat area.  This list does not use the custom aliases either.  Again, I would hope that if a custom alias is defined, its always  used.

-andre.

Comment 3 Bram Schoenmakers 2006-10-16 18:38:14 UTC

*** Bug 135748 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 T.B. van Kampen 2006-10-16 19:57:06 UTC

I can confirm this for MSN, too (see the bug that got marked as dupe). It's quite annoying because in that place you have little room so it would be very useful to have the aliasses there.

Regards,
Thomas

Comment 5 Josh Berry 2008-07-07 06:23:57 UTC

Confirmed in trunk r828808.

The participants list shows usernames, not nicknames.  I spoke with mattr on IRC, and he said this is incorrect -- we should be using names "as human-readable as possible in most circumstances".

Comment 6 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-15 23:28:34 UTC

Hello from the KDE Bugsquad!

Unfortunately, Yahoo has discontinued the Yahoo Messenger service, and the code has been removed from Kopete.

Thus, I am closing this bug as "UNMAINTAINED" since it will no longer be fixable, or able to operate due to Yahoo.