Providing sort contacts by multiple criteria

[Guillaume Pascal]

Binary package hint: empathy

Add ability to sort contacts by using several criteria

For example:
By statute and by name at the same time
By Statut and protocol

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Guillaume Pascal (guigui14100-deactivatedaccount)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611099

[AndreW (gimrock)]

Empathy is a good IM-client and it is default client in Ubuntu. But
I'm forced to use the other IM-client. Problem is in using of many
protocols (2 ICQ, 2 jabber, gmail, facebook - hundreds of contacts) and Empathy
don't separate this protocols in contact list. It is very unconfortable.
Make, please, the function of separation of porocols in contact list
optional (for example: view - separate protocols).

And some protocols I use for communication and other - for work. And when
somebody new write to me, I see in contact list through wich protocol he found
me. And im Empathy I forced to look properties of the contact. It is also
uncomfortable.