Re: newbie-question

Stuart Longland <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.everybuddy.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Stephan Schröder wrote:
> I just used everybuddie for the first time and added my icq-account,
which
> works fine. The problem is that only the icq-numbers of my friends are
shown,
> not there nicknames.
> How do i get to see their nicknames?

	You have to edit the contacts and rename them.  Everybuddy doesn't
actually use the 'nickname' that ICQ uses.  (This is true for all the
supported protocols).  If you right-click, I think (I haven't got EB in
front of me right now) there is an option to Edit a contact, in that
dialogue, you can rename the contact and assign them a more specific group.

	It is done this way because EB was designed for multiple chat
protocols.  'Contacts', are basically a collection of 'accounts' grouped
together that allow you to get in touch with one particular user over
whatever protocol they have an account for.  While, yes, EB could use
the nickname (Friendly Name in MSN) as a default, if you have one person
with multiple contacts, but different nicknames, how would EB know which
one is correct?  This is why you set a name, to resolve this confusion.

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