Re: Buddy List

So... this only way to do this is to add a last name or initial, or  
to go like 1:Jenny 2:Jenny (or Girlfriend:Jenny San Jose:Jenny)? This  
sounds like... a pain, and something that will definitely confuse  
casual users...
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On May 19, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Graham Booker wrote:

> Yes the grouping is mandatory, and this will not change.  To deal  
> with situation like you just listed, the grouping is also a lot  
> more flexible.  Your buddies are not grouped solely by Alias, but  
> instead you set the grouping.  Your case is just difficult because  
> the previous versions didn't support this, and the importer had to  
> do its best to guess the groupings.  For most people, it will guess  
> correctly.
>
> Now for the situation you mentioned, you can have multiple persons  
> with the same display name (just not the same person name).  See  
> http://trac.fireim.org/dev/wiki/PersonItem for more details.
>
> The latest SVN doesn't show disclosure triangles if the person has  
> only one buddy, and it also shows the buddy alias (if you have the  
> prefs set as such).  This was not the case previously because the  
> code had bugs which caused it to crash.
>
> On May 19, 2006, at 2:47 AM, Ernest Phillips wrote:
>
>> Follow up... it seems grouping is, in fact, mandatory. This is a  
>> big problem for me... For many names I have several people of the  
>> same name in the same group across one or more of the various  
>> services, for example a Jenny who has AIM and MSN, and another who  
>> has MSN and Yahoo...
>> --
>> Ernest Phillips - <[email protected]>
>>     http://www.ernestphillips.com
>>
>> "Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge  
>> even where there is no river." -Nikita Khrushchev
>>
>>
>> On May 19, 2006, at 12:44 AM, Ernest Phillips wrote:
>>
>>> I just upgraded to the current development version... is this the  
>>> final plan for the buddy list display? The presence of so many  
>>> disclosure triangles is... overwhelming. It is not showing both  
>>> Alias and screen name.
>>>
>>> I think I understand what's being done, but personally I don't  
>>> use grouping anyway, as I have too many different Jennys for  
>>> that. Though it seems that, now, grouping is automatic...
>>>
>>> I may just be missing how it works, so I eagerly await more  
>>> information.
>>> --
>>> Ernest Phillips - <[email protected]>
>>>     http://www.ernestphillips.com
>>>
>>> "Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a  
>>> bridge even where there is no river." -Nikita Khrushchev
>>>
>>>
>>>
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