salut/local_xmpp account presents hostname and no way to edit it

[komputes]

Binary package hint: empathy

You are allowed to change/customize the published name but not the hostname which is presented when using salut/local_xmpp. Please allow user to modify the hostname bit. You can currently see this info by going to Edit > Personal information. It is displayed as:
published_name@host_name

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: empathy 2.29.93-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 28 20:01:42 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I cant send this bug upstream as I dont understand whats it about. please can you open an upstream bug report

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Its a reminder. Please open an upstream bug report for this issue and provide us with the link.

[komputes (komputes)]

Hello Omer, I would like to clarify this issue so that you understand what it is about.

Attached below this comment are two screenshots of account preferences for the "bonjour/salut/local_xmpp/People Nearby" IM protocol. One of them is from Pidgin and the other from empathy. Empathy uses your host name (the name of your computer) while pidgin gives you the choice of specifying/customizing the hostname.

[komputes (komputes)]

Apparently changing the hostname that others on the network will see is a feature that will be removed from pidgin soon as it goes against RFC 2782.

The following ticket was filed for pidgin:
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/12674

The following upstream bug was closed:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=628757

Will now be closing this bug.