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Bug 586940 - provide IRC nick fallbacks
provide IRC nick fallbacks
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Accounts
2.27.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-06-25 12:36 UTC by Nicolò Chieffo
Modified: 2018-05-22 13:34 UTC
See Also:
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Description Nicolò Chieffo 2009-06-25 12:36:35 UTC 
commonly IRC clients provide nickname fallback when your selected nickname is already used by someone else, so you get connected without showing errors
Comment 1 Travis Reitter 2009-08-25 13:36:48 UTC 
I think this is a fairly well-known problem. Confirming.
Comment 2 Omer Akram 2009-11-26 16:15:50 UTC 
its quite old and i wish that it should get fixed in 2.30
Comment 3 Omer Akram 2010-03-22 15:01:31 UTC 
Is this empathy issue or somehow related to telepathy-idle?
Comment 4 Travis Reitter 2010-03-25 17:30:10 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> Is this empathy issue or somehow related to telepathy-idle?

Not strictly, it's just that it's an IRC convention to quietly make your nick non-conflicting if it's already in use on the server (so you don't have to interrupt the user, as Empathy does now).
Comment 5 willbickerstaff 2010-10-14 11:54:05 UTC 
Perhaps I'm alone here but my experience is that it does at least fail with an error. That error is ugly and not particularly descriptive of the actual problem. I tried using a name I new would be in use and the failure reported was 'disconnected - this resource is already connected to the server'
Comment 6 Reuben Thomas 2010-12-10 14:51:24 UTC 
Having just tried (for the umpteenth time) using Empathy rather than Pidgin, and found it finally usable if not perfect, this is one of the biggest remaining annoyances.
Comment 7 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 13:34:10 UTC 
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