[Bug 23497] New: Normalization of contacts hinders usability

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23497

           Summary: Normalization of contacts hinders usability
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: telepathy-butterfly
        AssignedTo: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: mardy at users.sourceforge.net
                CC: will.thompson at collabora.co.uk


Hi,
  the contacts created by tp-butterfly have all a "#1" appended to their
address, meaning that an addressbook application would store them with that
suffix appended. This is obviously wrong, as it prevents another connection
manager (for instance, tp-haze) to recognize these contacts.
I understand that this suffix is some kind of network ID, so it might be needed
to distinguish between duplicate accounts, but I fail to see the need for that.
The situation of having two IDs obama at whitehouse.org#1 and
obama at whitehouse.org#2 at the same time online on your roster is (I guess)
extremely unlikely, and even if that would happen the same person sits behind
these accounts anyway, so even if they are not distinguable I don't see a
problem.
But I don't know much about the MSN protocol, so please correct me if I'm
wrong.


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