Bug 87456 - Kopete doesn't save IRC USER names when saving logs as textfiles. This makes it hard to follow a conversation later.
Summary: Kopete doesn't save IRC USER names when saving logs as textfiles. This makes ...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 133584
Alias: None
Product: kopete
Classification: Applications
Component: History Plugin (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kopete Developers
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Reported: 2004-08-18 21:02 UTC by Ali Akcaagac
Modified: 2007-04-18 14:36 UTC (History)
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Description Ali Akcaagac 2004-08-18 21:02:40 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

The Description says everything I think - KDE CVS.
Comment 1 Richard Smith 2004-08-20 21:39:19 UTC 
I guess the history plugin would need to support saving custom extra data with messages?
Comment 2 Jason Keirstead 2004-08-20 21:42:37 UTC 
On August 20, 2004 04:39 pm, Richard Smith wrote:
> ------- Additional Comments From kde metafoo co uk  2004-08-20 21:39
> ------- I guess the history plugin would need to support saving custom
> extra data with messages? _______________________________________________

Actually, it sounds to me he wants to save the contactId or the 
contactDisplayName rather than the metacontact display name
Comment 3 Richard Smith 2004-08-20 21:47:42 UTC 
On Friday 20 August 2004 8:42 pm, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> Actually, it sounds to me he wants to save the contactId or the
> contactDisplayName rather than the metacontact display name

I thought the requester wanted to save the username part of your IRC id thing 
(the bit before the @ in the user@host thing IRC does).
Comment 4 Jason Keirstead 2004-08-23 13:34:03 UTC 
I dunno. How would having those help to follow a conversation (as in the report)?

Ali, could you clarify the request please?

Regardless I think this is a wish and not a bug
Comment 5 Ali Akcaagac 2004-10-03 18:05:54 UTC 
Well yes I will try (sorry I was away for vacation so it took a while for me to reply).

Ok when saving an IRC Log to a Text file (as ASCII Text) then no usernames are saved which makes it hard to follow conversation afterwards. Example:

---[how xchat and other programs does it]---
<nimrod> hello galaxy how are you?
<galaxy> hello nimrod i am doing fine!
--------------------------------------------

---[how kopete does it]---------------------
hello galaxy how are you?
hello nimrod i am doing fine!
--------------------------------------------

Now imagine there has been a half an hour conversation that I wanted to capture now who said what ? I think that Kopete IRC-Log should and must contain the User names and on demand the Time and Date as well.
Comment 6 Ali Akcaagac 2004-10-31 14:29:03 UTC 
Any progress here ? I saw that Kopete is now able to save nick names in conversations. Unfortunately it does only with nicks using a ':' after nick name e.g. "<galaxy>: hello" but not if there is no ':' after nick name. Looks like this needs some little more work.
Comment 7 Ali Akcaagac 2005-07-16 00:36:38 UTC 
In case someone is working on this (and there used to be huge code refactoring in the IRC plugin) I would like to ask the new plugin maintainer whether something in this area has been done. I ask because it would be pretty nice to see open bugs closed when fixed.
Comment 8 Pino Toscano 2007-04-18 14:36:34 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133584 ***