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Bug 603172 - group chat service provided by groups.im does not work correctly.
group chat service provided by groups.im does not work correctly.
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Chat
2.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
: 615533 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-11-27 18:18 UTC by lhong1987
Modified: 2010-04-13 07:21 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description lhong1987 2009-11-27 18:18:14 UTC
the group chat created by groups.im does not work right
every user except myself comes up as group name.

e.g.
(group name: group/My name: me)
group: hi, me.
group: like I was saying, WoW is the best online game ever.
me: I can't tell who's who.
group: what are you talking about.
group: I'm name1.
group: I'm name2.

and so on.
aMSN, another opensource platform for msn chat works fine for in when it comes to groups.im
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-11-30 09:47:26 UTC
Could you tell me more about groups.im? I have no idea what is it.
Comment 2 lhong1987 2009-12-06 18:35:46 UTC
groups.im is a service that provides group chat.
http://groups.im/ is the web address.

I don't know how exactly groups.im works.
The service account stays online.
Users register their accounts to this service account.
Whatever message I send to this groups.im account is relayed to everyone else who is also registered to this account as if the groups.im account is saying it.
Using aMSN, the messages I receive from groups.im account appears as the ones who originally sent the message to the groups.im account.
In empathy, the messages I receive appears as if groups.im is saying it.

e.g.,
"A" sends message "hello" to groups.im
groups.im(named "group") relays the message to me.

in empathy, I read:
groups says: hello

in aMSN, I read:
A says: hello
Comment 3 Youness Alaoui 2009-12-07 20:50:41 UTC
Hi,
The problem is that it's not the nickname that's being used in aMSN, it's the 'Friendly name'.. MSN has the ability to specify a "friendly name" *per message*.. this allows people to have huge ascii-art nicknames that do not bloat the chat windows when chatting. That's also what groups.im uses, I can confirm.
This "Friendly name" is sent as a header in the message, the header is called "P4-Context". papyon supports it and sets it as the message.display_name on the event on_conversation_message_received.
Telepathy-butterfly does not support it though.
Comment 4 Olivier Le Thanh Duong 2009-12-07 21:24:25 UTC
Hi,

apparently Telepathy-butterfly should display this via channel specific handles in Telepathy. So it should be fixed there instead of in Empathy

There is a bug opened again Telepathy-butterfly here https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25272
Comment 5 Jonny Lamb 2010-04-12 14:52:41 UTC
*** Bug 615533 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Jonny Lamb 2010-04-12 14:54:01 UTC
This will actually need a change in Empathy once fd.o#27568 and fd.o#25272 are fixed, but I'll open a new bug about that at the time, unless you'd like me to re-use this one Guillaume?
Comment 7 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-04-13 07:21:10 UTC
Please open a new one.