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Bug 590595 - ICQ: Only numbers displayed, no way to get nickname
ICQ: Only numbers displayed, no way to get nickname
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Accounts
2.26.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: empathy-maint
: 580015 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-08-03 09:38 UTC by David Förster
Modified: 2009-11-18 10:26 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.25/2.26


Description David Förster 2009-08-03 09:38:12 UTC 
Hi,

I just switched from Pidgin to Empathy. 

Some (not all) of my ICQ contacts are only displayed with their ICQ number. This also occured with Pidgin but it had a function "Retrieve contact details" which pulled the nickname from the server and displayed it in the contact list. With Empathy I haven't found a way to get the nicknames displayed. ("Information" displays the number both as identifier and alias.)

This is an issue I experience on both my Debian (testing) and Ubuntu (stable) machines.

- David
Comment 1 Pierre-Luc Beaudoin 2009-08-03 13:18:57 UTC 
*** Bug 580015 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-08-26 17:03:08 UTC 
I'd say that Haze should poke the server automatically if it needs to. Feel free to open a telepathy-haze bug about that on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
Comment 3 David Förster 2009-08-26 19:23:28 UTC 
Well I don't know what Haze and what it has to do with Empathy. I'm just a user of your software trying to improve it by reporting this bug. The rest is really up to you (fix it, forward it if appropriate, ignore it, ...).

I just figure it would be in your own interest making your software usable to ordinary people.
Comment 4 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-11-18 10:26:34 UTC 
I opened https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25157 about this issue.