GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 608806
empathy doesn't let me see or get to contact details during subscription request
Last modified: 2011-08-29 10:12:43 UTC
I'm bringing this upstream from Ubuntu Bug #515555 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/515555) When available empathy should show or provide a link for the details of a contact that tries to subscribe. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Feb 1 09:55:18 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20091229) Package: empathy 2.29.6-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.16-generic SourcePackage: empathy Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic x86_64 XsessionErrors: (gnome-settings-daemon:1869): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (gnome-settings-daemon:1869): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1921): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (Do:1897): Wnck-CRITICAL **: wnck_set_client_type got called multiple times.
the reporter actually want a feature that he say exists in pidgin and windoze clients. its that when someone sends a subscription request we should be able to some information about the user who want to add us as their contact.
Which kind of information exactly? A better description (or a screenshot) would help.
I can only guess what he means, but what annoys me is that I only see the ICQ number of a request and not the nickname of the user requesting. I have to open www.icq.com and make a people search for the number in order to see the nickname. often the nickname identifies an account as a spam account: some russian symbols in the name...
That's because Haze doesn't fetch automatically ICQ aliases: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25157
Comment #3 is on track of what my initial report is about and I think warrants confirming this bug, apologies if I wasn't clear enough from the get go. When one receives a new contact request on Windows' MSN for instance one is presented with a link to the person's profile and can then decide to accept or no the connection. My profile link for example is something like http://cid-85e73bcad1af8e8e.profile.live.com my MSN ID is alex_mayorga_adame(at)hotmail.com I don't know if there's a way to programatically get said profile page, but on these SPAM full days it would be great to have and I see is not only an MSN thing. Thanks and please let me know if further info is needed.
Created attachment 157708 [details] Link to profile on Windows Live Messenger Here's a sample of the functionality I'd like empathy to have.
We could do that once Empathy gains support for ContactInfo (bug #588922).
*** Bug 615422 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Now that empathy has support for ContactInfo, this can be fixed.
Yeah that shouldn't be too hard to do now.
Created attachment 176006 [details] [review] http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/cassidy/empathy;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pending-show-info-608806 libempathy-gtk/empathy-contact-dialogs.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.
That was fast. And the fix is indeed a concise one :). Thanks