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Bug 320316 - Gaim contacts import filter
Gaim contacts import filter
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Contacts
3.6.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: evolution-addressbook-maintainers
Evolution QA team
: 499584 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-10-31 14:04 UTC by Lucas Lommer
Modified: 2013-09-13 01:07 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Lucas Lommer 2005-10-31 14:04:56 UTC 
Should be usable if evolution be able to check gaim contacts and if contact's
nick is already in gaim, not to import contact again.
If I have "Mr. Anybody" in evolution contacts and same person in gaim contacts,
but as "anybody", evolution adds him as new (and duplicate) contact Mr. Anybody.
Evolution should check if contact's IM is already in gaim's contacts list.
Comment 1 Poornima 2006-06-21 09:00:20 UTC 
confirming as it would be useful to have some check like that.
Comment 2 Alan Cramer 2007-07-14 10:02:01 UTC 
I too am all for this...Pidgin (formerally Gaim) and Evolution do a shocking job of maintaining a synchronized address book.
Comment 3 Ross Burton 2007-07-14 10:31:05 UTC 
As one of the authors of eds-sync (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2007-May/msg00062.html) I can state with authority that syncing addressbooks and rosters is non-trivial.

Maybe Evolution should ditch the giam sync, and suggest that users use eds-sync.
Comment 5 C de-Avillez 2009-05-03 19:03:22 UTC 
The Ubuntu bug was missing a digit. Correct link is https://bugs.launchpad.net/evolution-data-server/+bug/157207
Comment 6 C de-Avillez 2009-05-03 19:45:56 UTC 
*** Bug 499584 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Denis Jasselette 2010-02-21 02:12:28 UTC 
The filter is still very weak. Currently, the plugin only tries to match a full name with the alias (or the address if none was found) extracted from pidgin.

Furthermore, the same plugin collects new recipients' address but then searches in the "email" fields too. The interesting part is located there:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/tree/plugins/bbdb/bbdb.c#n351

Something similar should be done with the "im" fields around there:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/tree/plugins/bbdb/gaimbuddies.c#n207

I would do a patch but I'm busy right now.
Comment 8 André Klapper 2012-04-02 11:24:15 UTC 
Empathy is the official IM client for GNOME and uses libfolks whose default store is evolution-data-server.

Proposing WONTFIX.
Comment 9 Lucas Lommer 2012-04-05 20:56:14 UTC 
I agree, related to pidin now, gnome has empathy.