GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 597251
Empathy thinks user and nick are the same thing
Last modified: 2018-05-22 13:44:11 UTC
Hi, when you connect to an IRC server the following transaction takes place NICK nick USER user hostname servername :realname The problem is, that empathy thinks that nick==user, and alot of servers (mainly bouncers) require a valid user and pass to login. Thus making it impossible to login to servers that have user and pass authentication, unless you are happy with having a nick the same as your user. This is also a bug in importing accounts from pidgin. As i could login to my bouncer with pidgin, but could not with empathy (because my nick is not the same as my user, pidgin can handle this, empathy can't) Long story short, there needs to be a user box in the accounts dialog.
Thanks for your bug report. There are 2 problems there: - A Idle bug prevents Empathy to set a username. I proposed a fix for this on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24356 - Once this bug is fixed in Idle, Empathy needs UI to let users set their username
(In reply to comment #1) > - A Idle bug prevents Empathy to set a username. I proposed a fix for this on > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24356 This has been fixed in git, and will be in idle 0.1.6.
Created attachment 247625 [details] Username UI already implemented The UI exists in the advanced expander in the "Edit Connection Parameters" dialog for the account in question. (See attached screenshot). I haven't tested it on a server since I don't know which server requires a username.
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