[Telepathy] [Bug 14540] separate Aliases into "my names for people" and "people' s names for themselves"

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





--- Comment #1 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk>  2008-02-18 04:45:30 PST ---
The distinction being requested is between "petnames" and "nicknames" as
defined by <http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/petnames/IntroPetNames.html>,
although we'd rather not have the name Petnames appear in our API.

This is also required if we want to follow
http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0165.html "Best Practices to Discourage JID
Mimicking", or its (possibly unwritten) equivalent on other protocols.

source   |my name for them   |  their name for themselves
---------+-------------------+---------------------------
skyhunter| petname           | nickname
XEP-0165 | handle, petname   | nickname
Pidgin   | private alias     | public alias

Other possibilities for the "my name for them" column include "friendly name"
(suggested by Rob) or "appointed alias" (suggested in #pidgin).


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