#10651: Alias changes when grouping buddies

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#10651: Alias changes when grouping buddies
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 Reporter:  mbateman      |     Owner:  rekkanoryo
     Type:  defect        |    Status:  new      
Component:  unclassified  |   Version:  2.6.3    
 Keywords:                |  
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 When I use the expand and drag method to group buddy accounts, it always
 changes the buddy alias to the name that is alphabetically first instead
 of keeping the alias the same as the one that was expanded. For example if
 a buddy has two accounts, one with display name "John Doe", and the other
 "Doe, John", no matter which one I drag into the other, the alias ends up
 as "Doe, John". It seems like it should keep the name the same as
 whichever one you expand and use as the master.

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#10651: Alias changes when grouping buddies
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 Reporter:  mbateman  |        Owner:  rekkanoryo  
     Type:  defect    |       Status:  pending    
Milestone:            |    Component:  unclassified
  Version:  2.6.3     |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:            |  
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Changes (by deryni):

  * status:  new => pending


Comment:

 What alias exactly is changing? For the collapsed contact pidgin will
 display the alias of the ["wiki:Using
 Pidgin#IgroupedmybuddiesintocontactscanIcontrolwhichoneisselected"
 priority] buddy (or the contact alias if you have set one), is that what
 you are seeing?

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#10651: Alias changes when grouping buddies
----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------
 Reporter:  mbateman  |        Owner:  rekkanoryo  
     Type:  defect    |       Status:  pending    
Milestone:            |    Component:  unclassified
  Version:  2.6.3     |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:            |  
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Changes (by mbateman):

  * status:  pending => new


Comment:

 This does not seem to have anything to do with which is the priority
 buddy. The grouped buddy (meta contact in Trillian) name changes when you
 first group them to whichever is alphabetically first. Regardless whether
 I drag "John Doe" into "Doe, John" or the other way around, the displayed
 name is always "Doe, John". So if I want it to be "John Doe" I have to
 then alias it after I combine them. The intuitive thing would be to keep
 the name of which ever one you are dragging into.

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#10651: Alias changes when grouping buddies
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 Reporter:  mbateman  |        Owner:  rekkanoryo  
     Type:  defect    |       Status:  new        
Milestone:            |    Component:  unclassified
  Version:  2.6.3     |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:            |  
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Comment(by mbateman):

 Never mind. I see now that this does seem to be based on the priority.
 Whichever one is the priority shows as the grouped buddy name. This
 appears to be how it is inteded to work, but is not what I expected. I
 really like the idea of the Meta contact from Trillian where the meta
 contact name is separate from any of the individual accounts. They way you
 have it, the name that shows on the grouped buddy changes depending on
 which account is active. It would be nice to say the buddy group is called
 Bob and it would stay that way instead of changing from "Bob Smith" to
 "Smith, Bob" to "bsmith@..." which then moves it around in the
 list.

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#10651: Alias changes when grouping buddies
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 Reporter:  mbateman  |        Owner:  rekkanoryo  
     Type:  defect    |       Status:  pending    
Milestone:            |    Component:  unclassified
  Version:  2.6.3     |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:            |  
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Changes (by rekkanoryo):

  * status:  new => pending


Comment:

 If you right-click the combined contact, then click expand, you can change
 the alias for the combined contact separately from the buddies in the
 contact.  Once the contact is expanded, right-click the contact entry (the
 one with the triangle or + sign to its left), then click Alias.

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#10651: Alias changes when grouping buddies
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 Reporter:  mbateman  |        Owner:  rekkanoryo  
     Type:  defect    |       Status:  closed      
Milestone:            |    Component:  unclassified
  Version:  2.6.3     |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:            |  
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Changes (by trac-robot):

  * status:  pending => closed


Comment:

 This ticket was closed automatically by the system.  It was previously set
 to a Pending status and hasn't been updated within 14 days.

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