Comment 14 for bug 473662

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In , Simon McVittie (smcv) wrote :

(In reply to comment #0)
> This is mainly because libpurple provides no protocol-independent mechanism to
> set your server alias/friendly name/whatever.

Since 2.7.0, it does; see attached (rather simplistic) patch.

Note that in current libpurple, only the MSN prpl can take advantage of this.