problem adding contact

[techie]

Binary package hint: empathy

when adding a contact, when i stop typing, cursor jumps to beginning and #1 is added to the end of the username making it impossible to chat

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 5 05:43:06 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: empathy 2.28.1-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Damien Lecan (dlecan)]

See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604449

[Guillaume-desmottes (guillaume-desmottes)]

Post fixing all contact ID with #1 is really annoying; Butterfly should stop doing that.

Note that we should have a smooth migration path to not break logs in Empathy.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for sent it upstream to GNOME!.

[Damien Lecan (dlecan)]

This is not an Empathy bug, see http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25635 instead.
Not really simple to understand how Empathy is structured ...

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Reassigning to match the upstream product.

[Olivier Le Thanh Duong (olethanh)]

For reference, here is a patch which remove the #1 and only add #yahoo if it's an external yahoo contact. We still need agreement if this is the right choice and how to provide a migration path in Empathy.

http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/olethanh/telepathy-butterfly.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/networkid

[Louis-francis-ratte-boulianne (louis-francis-ratte-boulianne)]

I thought we already merged that patch. Was there any reason for not accepting the patch ? Backward compatibility maybe ?

[Olivier Le Thanh Duong (olethanh)]

Nope I've updated it in my repo but it's not merged yet. I'm still waiting for the ok from Empath/MC people.

[Jonny-lamb (jonny-lamb)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I thought we already merged that patch. Was there any reason for not accepting
> the patch ? Backward compatibility maybe ?

The only problem is Empathy. If we merge this patch, then users will have confusing logs. I just had a look at the code and it looks like the only way forward is to do a one-time move of all logs from "<email address hidden>#1" to "<email address hidden>". Although there are some "#1"s in the actual logs, I don't think that will matter.

This patch is already in the maemo version of butterfly.

[Olivier Le Thanh Duong (olethanh)]

*** Bug 23497 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Jonny-lamb (jonny-lamb)]

I've done the work to get log migration working in Empathy. See:

    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612519

When this Empathy branch is merged and released, we can merge this branch.

I've brought the two patches up to current git master:

    http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/jonny/telepathy-butterfly.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/networkid

I'll write the NEWS entry when it's merged.

[Olivier Le Thanh Duong (olethanh)]

The empathy patch has been merged and released so we can probably merge this one now

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is fixed in lucid now