GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 633578
cannot drag contacts to a group
Last modified: 2011-01-11 03:17:54 UTC
"in "Contact List" a new contact, buddy or friend might appear in group "Ungrouped". Now, naturally, you want to drag this new buddy into a better defined group of contacts. This is currently not implemented." originally reported at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/666927
That should work. Which version are you using? With which protocol?
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!
empathy: Installed: 2.32.1-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 2.32.1-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 2.32.1-0ubuntu1 0 I can't drag my girlfriend into the group i created for "family". I'm using xmpp / jabber, Google Talk to be specific. Platform is Ubuntu Maverick uname -m -> i686 (i think that means its 32bit) ?!
You can't drag at all or DnD doesn't change anything? In any case, empathy logs would be useful.
After trying a couple of times it suddenly worked.. veery strange! What still doesn't work is to drag someone back to "Ungrouped". Upon drag/hover it offers itself as valid drop destination (i.e. it highlights), but "Ungrouped" won't accept any contacts upon DnD.. If the original problem (dragging to any group) reappears, i'll reconfirm it. Thx for looking into this!
Personal Opinion: dragging to groups shouldn't be possible in the first place, groups should be more like labels, if a contact can be member of > 1 group simultaneously. The purpose of having a compact list of contacts with their live Presence status visible is defeated, if we allow to duplicate entries in this list for no quite apparent purpose. I can't set myself e.g. to "invisible" towards one group, while i'm e.g. "available" to another.. there is no real purpose in having groups, if they don't do anything. Labels are also easier to manage when it comes to a greater list of contacts, they help the user contribute valuable relational information to the contacts database, and labels can be re-used in libfolks or other engines that can handle metacontacts and their various meta-information fields..