Bug 207384

Summary:	Restore ability to add group chats to the contact list
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	Jason Keirstead <jason>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Jason Keirstead 2009-09-14 21:41:34 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Adding a group chat to the contact list used to be possible. It seems now though that when you do this, the metacontact associated with it is transient - the contact does not stay in the contact list after the chat is closed. Instead, it makes some kind o protocol-dependant bookmark (in Jabber you can right click on the protocol and select "Group Chat Bookmarks")

This is less than ideal for a few reasons. Firstly, it makes it impossible to set per-chat notification settings (ie, you want messages from a specific chat room to always alert you, and others to not). Second, it makes it not possible to group the chat rooms properly in your contact list if they are affiliated with specific groups of people.

Comment 1 Jason Keirstead 2009-09-14 21:42:05 UTC

Also this is somewhat related to bug 200932 but it does not really describe the same thing.

Comment 2 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-18 18:27:48 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Dear user, unfortunately Kopete is no longer maintained.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.