[Bug 14540] Nicknames interface

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14540

--- Comment #11 from Youness Alaoui <youness.alaoui at collabora.co.uk> 2010-05-21 11:13:44 PDT ---
No worries Simon, I'd like to give my opinion and explain how it works with MSN
anyways, so thanks for CC-ing me.
So, with MSN you have a nickname (the one the contact sets), which you can
override (The official client just puts an 'annotation' on the contact's data
called 'AB.Nickname' and the UI uses it to replace the contact's nickname).

You can also have a 'friendly name' which is a bit different, it's the nickname
to be shown for a *single* message in the chat window.. This is used for
example by groups.im (a single bot contact that acts like an IRC channel with
bip), where the groups.im contact uses this friendly name to show you the
correct nickname of who is sending the message. It can also be used by people
who use extremely long nicknames with ascii art, etc.. but don't want to
pollute their chat windows at every line. It can also be used by people who
want to show a different nickname for each of their contacts. The friendly-name
is set as a header field in the message. It does not affect the nickname shown
in the contact list at all.. only the message in the chat window.

Anyways, in aMSN, we make a distincition between the 'nickname' and the 'custom
nickname' (petname). I also believe the UI needs to have access to both
information, because it would be helpful to have the petname (custom nickname)
appear in the contact list, but the original nickname showing up in the tooltip
for example, etc..

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