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Bug 597046 - Allow aggregating contacts that represent the same person
Allow aggregating contacts that represent the same person
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 460647
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Contact List
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-10-01 21:02 UTC by Asa Zernik
Modified: 2009-10-02 17:02 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Asa Zernik 2009-10-01 21:02:24 UTC 
Mostly a request to duplicate a favorite feature from Pidgin, which allows you to group together a contact's AIM, Jabber, MSN, etc. accounts so that they appear in the contact list as a single contact. When you ask to send an IM to this contact, the client picks one of the accounts that is online to which to send the IM.

This produces a workflow of "I want to talk to so-and-so person, let me find their name" rather than "I want to talk to so-and-so person, let me find one of their IM accounts." Much more intuitive and human-friendly.

(Just got Empathy with my Ubuntu upgrade, and I'm liking it!)
Comment 1 Xavier Claessens 2009-10-02 06:53:33 UTC 
This is called meta contact. We already have a bug about that ;-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 460647 ***
Comment 2 Asa Zernik 2009-10-02 17:02:51 UTC 
Ah thanks. Didn't know the name to search with :-)