[Bug 25157] ICQ nicknames get clobbered by Empathy setting the UIN as the Alias.

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25157

Will Thompson <will.thompson at collabora.co.uk> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Should fetch ICQ alias      |ICQ nicknames get clobbered
                   |automatically               |by Empathy setting the UIN
                   |                            |as the Alias.

--- Comment #4 from Will Thompson <will.thompson at collabora.co.uk> 2010-05-02 07:31:16 PDT ---
To clarify:

The problem seems to have been that Empathy explicitly sets contacts' alias to
their ID. So if the contact-specified nickname doesn't arrive fast enough —
which it doesn't — the ICQ user's alias is forcibly set to their UIN, and then
when their actual nickname arrives, we don't get it because we already have a
user-set alias for the contact.

So this branch makes setting a contact's alias to their ID a no-op.

I'm wondering about making the alias lookup code explicitly ignore the local
alias if it's the user's UIN, and try the remote nickname instead. Thoughts?

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