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Bug 523087 - empathy should allow custom group sorting
empathy should allow custom group sorting
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Contact List
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
: 551704 553485 643317 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-03-18 01:41 UTC by daniel g. siegel
Modified: 2018-05-22 13:08 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description daniel g. siegel 2008-03-18 01:41:02 UTC
sometimes, you want to have your most active group, e.g. co-workers on the top, as you need them probably all the time. but for now, empathy sorts them alphabetically, which would list "all my friends" before co-worker.
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2008-04-10 09:46:38 UTC
I agree, that would be an useful improvement.
Comment 2 Xavier Claessens 2008-09-23 08:31:43 UTC
*** Bug 551704 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Xavier Claessens 2008-09-24 07:01:26 UTC
*** Bug 553485 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Leif Walsh 2009-08-02 09:24:05 UTC
Any progress on this?  It's rather old.
Comment 5 Omer Akram 2010-03-22 12:04:17 UTC
Also reported at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/363859
Comment 6 Kristoffer Lundén 2010-05-05 17:10:59 UTC
I also would like the group sorting to be per-installation (I suppose that may be the only viable solution, but wanted to say this anyway).

I use the same accounts at work and at home, but at work I have my work group sorted at the top for easy access, but at home, at the bottom (rarely used). (I still use pidgin, so no need to ask how I accomplished that in Empathy, this is one of the things I feel I need, because I have so many people on my lists, effective and sorted grouping is kind of a must).
Comment 7 martin.i.oliveira 2010-05-05 17:20:51 UTC
This is a two-year-old request - any progress?
Comment 8 Isaac Clerencia 2010-05-14 03:06:01 UTC
It is a very important feature for me too, and my last reason to keep using Pidgin instead of Empathy ...
Comment 9 Brian Z 2010-05-16 16:36:52 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> It is a very important feature for me too, and my last reason to keep using
> Pidgin instead of Empathy ...

Ditto. But it still says "Status:NEW" down below here, after 2 years?
Comment 10 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-05-17 14:30:19 UTC
"NEW" means the bug has been confirmed. That doesn't reflect the age of the bug.
Comment 11 Louis Cunningham 2010-10-02 02:23:49 UTC
Tick tock, the time keeps ticking.  Is there absolutely no progress on this?
Comment 12 Felix Kaser 2010-10-02 09:06:19 UTC
I think we can safely mark this as duplicate of #611972, which has been fixed recently. I think we simply failed to mark it as duplicate before, or to be more precise: mark the other bug as duplicate of this one.

I'm marking this as dup of the other because the other one contains a lot of discussion, patches, reviews and the actual fix.

If you think the bug is not fixed yet, feel free to reopen the bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 611972 ***
Comment 13 Marcus Beyer 2010-10-02 09:44:39 UTC
I disagree.
#611972 is about single contacts, this bug is about groups.
Also, this bug is about custom sorting, which clearly cannot be solved by something as favorite contacts.
That said, i cannot see how this bug can be a duplicate of #611972.
Comment 14 Felix Kaser 2010-10-02 09:53:06 UTC
Hmm I misunderstood the "group of coworkers" then...

Favorite Contacts could still be a good starting point, extending them to allow favorite groups as well.

Reopening.
Comment 15 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-02-28 09:50:52 UTC
*** Bug 643317 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-03-26 11:30:04 UTC
Allan: how do you feel about this? Is that something we should support when redesigning the contact list?
Comment 17 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 13:08:36 UTC
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