Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.5.0) OS: Linux while using kopete with adding accounts and adding/moving contacts, creating meta-contacts, etc. kopete accumulates empty meta-contacts. i think they could be silently deleted, as there is no use in a completely empty contact. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: using kopete in a normal everyday use Actual Results: many empty metacontacts spamming the contact-list when showing offline contacts Expected Results: no useless meta-contacts
I agree this is a problem. However, there should be a user option to delete empty meta contacts. It should not occur automatically, or silently. I sometimes create empty meta-contacts for a reason - when I am ordering large numbers of contacts, and will later add IM sub-account details to those contacts. Alternatively, retention of empty meta-contacts can be useful in identifying when contacts have removed you from a service (such as facebook) :) So I propose that there be an option instead to purge empty meta contacts. Additionally it would be good to filter on just empty meta contacts so that a user can view them alone, and determine what action to take manually.
there are several good ways to do it. automatically removing alone is not so useful. - remove or ask to remove a metacontact if the last entry left. handle it good if there are many empty metacontacts because of some action - make an menu-option "purge empty contacts". not so useful, because you need it not so often, but easy to use and not automatic. - make a filter for "empty metacontacts". Easy to use, easy to remove the metacontacts, but the filter does not seem to be useful to the user, why should he want to view empty contancts?! maybe the best: - allow filtering for contacts by protocol with multiple-choice selection: - contacts with (at least) icq - contacts with (at most) icq - contacts with at least icq AND jabber - contacts with at least icq OR jabber - ... - contacts with at most [] (empty list) this function is useful for other purposes at organizing the contact-list, too, can can be used to find empty contacts. Gui: Choice Field: - one of those - all of those list: ChoiceField (protocol) checkbox (NOT) button + (add another listitem for protocol selection) another option would be a view grouping contacts by protocol: None: empty contacts ICQ: contacts with at least icq MSN: contacts with at least msn so long for some brainstorming :).
That bug has become a real problem for me, as Kopete has accumulated thousands of those empty meta contacts during the last months. Consequently startup literally takes hours! Is there a simple way to delete all empty meta contacts?
Dear Bug Submitter, This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to REPORTED when you respond. Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
(In reply to Andrew Crouthamel from comment #4) > Dear Bug Submitter, > > This bug has been stagnant for a long time. Could you help us out and > re-test if the bug is valid in the latest version? I am setting the status > to NEEDSINFO pending your response, please change the Status back to > REPORTED when you respond. > > Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone! I do not use kopete anymore since a long time.
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This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!