Adium

Ticket #9050 (new enhancement)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 8 months ago

modify addressbook name import in order to work with xmpp-gateways

Reported by: xmpp-nerd Assigned to: nobody
Priority: normal Milestone: Good idea for "later"
Component: Jabber/XMPP Version: 1.2.1
Severity: normal Keywords: jabber, xmpp, addressbook
Cc: am, evands Patch: None
Pending: 0

Description

Adiums feature to import the realnames from addressbook.app (if for example the icq number is included in a certain addressbook contact) is very handy. unfortunately this feature breaks when using an xmpp-icq-gateway.

the contact id in the roster is then "icqnumber@icq.the-xmpp-gateway.com" instead of just "icqnumber".

as adium knows about it's account gateways it should be possible to modify the addressbook interaction in order to work with gateways, too.

currently you have to workaround by saving your contacts icq number in addressbook like so:
icqnumber@icq.mygateway.org (Jabber)
instead of:
icqnumber (ICQ)

of course "icq" is just an example - this problem applies to all other services, too.

Change History

02/04/2008 04:05:42 AM changed by david

good you mentioned it. this is really one of the top issues for xmpp users (at least obviously in our humble opinion). i really hope that someone of the adium team shares our opinion. would be cool if they set a milestone not toooo far away :-)

02/04/2008 04:17:14 AM changed by david

i just filed a real bug which is at least connected with adiums addressbook interaction features, maybe if someone is working on this one, he should also have a look on #9122 :-)

02/04/2008 02:12:55 PM changed by jas8522

  • milestone set to Good idea for "later".

Adium obviously cannot know what domains are jabber gateways, so it would need to hope that anything with a number in front of it is an ICQ gateway?

02/04/2008 02:18:37 PM changed by am

well, the gateways the user is subscribed to are known to adium (see the transport section of the account menu). just the type is a bit more complicated (disco#info).

02/04/2008 02:34:16 PM changed by jas8522

Ahh yes of course - you must have an account with that transport anyway (unless we get into jabber cloud reachability) - I forgot about that.

02/05/2008 04:13:02 AM changed by xmpp-nerd

exactly. that was what i meant :-) please dont issue it to the ticket graveyard "good idea for later" ;-)

05/15/2008 08:38:16 AM changed by djmori