Empathy doesn't allow for alternative IRC nicks

Bug #446200 reported by Michael
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Empathy
Expired
Medium
empathy (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: empathy

Most IRC clients will let you provide an alternative nick, or generate one for you, if your nick is taken when you try to join a chat room. Empathy just fails with no feedback whatsoever (doesn't even say that it failed).

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

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)

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
Changed in empathy:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Changed in empathy:
importance: Unknown → Medium
Changed in empathy:
status: Confirmed → Expired
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