[Bug 14540] Names interface - Aliasing replacement with separate nickname, local alias etc.

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

--- Comment #13 from Youness Alaoui <youness.alaoui at collabora.co.uk> 2010-05-25 13:20:05 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #12)

> 
> This is inaccessible except on messages, right? So you'd never want it to be
> shown in a contact list, because you can't display it until you've received at
> least one message in the current session?
> 
> If it was possible to pull this from the server somehow, we could make it
> available as a third attribute on the Names interface, but at the moment we
> just map it to a "sender-nickname" key in each message on the Messages
> interface. Is that basically equivalent to what aMSN does?
yep, it's not accessible expect on messages, and will never be shown in the
contact list, so it's not relevant to the current bug.

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