GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 660376
Empathy doesn't support editing groups from EDS
Last modified: 2011-12-01 11:30:59 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 I suspect we're using one of the outdated empathy-contact-* widgets instead of a FolksIndividual-based widget for editing here.
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
(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.
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.
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 ***