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Bug 660376 - Empathy doesn't support editing groups from EDS
Empathy doesn't support editing groups from EDS
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 660281
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Meta Contacts
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
Depends on: 660281
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-09-28 16:23 UTC by Travis Reitter
Modified: 2011-12-01 11:30 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Travis Reitter 2011-09-28 16:23:02 UTC
If an Individual contains an Edsf.Persona with a category set (eg, "Personal"), they'll show up in that group in Empathy (as long as they have an IM address that also shows up on a connected Telepathy account).

However, if you edit the Individual, the group won't show up, so you can't de-select it.

I've confirmed that my Edsf.PersonaStores support group modification ("groups" is in "always-writeable-properties"), so it's a matter of Empathy not properly handling it. I suspect we're using one of the outdated empathy-contact-* widgets instead of a FolksIndividual-based widget for editing here.
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-09-29 08:14:30 UTC
Is it safe to change/remove persona from this Google specific group? That won't mess with Google's abook?

Also, maybe we shouldn't display those groups in Empathy  at all, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660281#c9
Comment 2 Travis Reitter 2011-09-29 14:53:15 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Is it safe to change/remove persona from this Google specific group? That won't
> mess with Google's abook?
> 
> Also, maybe we shouldn't display those groups in Empathy  at all, see
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660281#c9

I think you're right. We shouldn't be trampling on Google-specific data if we can avoid it. So this makes me lean toward just hiding the Google-only groups as you outlined in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660281#c9

This alone doesn't quite invalidate this bug; but whether we close this depends upon the result of bug #660281, so let's wait until that's resolved.
Comment 3 Julian Sikorski 2011-12-01 09:53:52 UTC
It does mess with google addressbook - see bug 665163. Basically, when I removed the group in empathy (right click → remove) these contacts have vanished from my nexus s. Thank you google for automatic backups.
Comment 4 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-12-01 11:30:59 UTC
So yeah, I think that the right answer here is that Empathy should ignore those group completely. Closing as a dup of bug #660281

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 660281 ***