[wishlist] Order contacts by account in Empathy

[twooften]

Binary package hint: empathy

Not really a bug, but if a person uses multiple accounts with empathy, how can one determine whos contacts are whos...
Now I am sure someone is going to say ' Use the login screen with multiple users ' I dont want to have to log in and out when I sit down. Not necessary.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Dec 22 12:42:13 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic-pae
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic-pae i686

[Ruben Verweij (ruben-verweij)]

Thanks for your bug report. Could you please provide us with an idea of how to make this better? Then the developers might be able to fix it.

[twooften (alg-murraystools)]

Simple, in the 'View' pull down menu, add the accounts with a check
box, meaning, a check would enable, no check disable. If both are
enabled, then just make each account their own group in the main
window... same as buddies, etc.

This is why I love this community... Thanks for the opportunity to
contribute an idea.

Quoting Ruben Verweij <email address hidden>:
> Thanks for your bug report. Could you please provide us with an idea of
> how to make this better? Then the developers might be able to fix it.
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - stupid layout/contact system
> + [wishlist] Order contacts by account in Empathy
>
> -- [wishlist] Order contacts by account in Empathy
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/499529
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: empathy
>
> Not really a bug, but if a person uses multiple accounts with
> empathy, how can
> one determine whos contacts are whos...
> Now I am sure someone is going to say ' Use the login screen with
> multiple users
> ' I dont want to have to log in and out when I sit down. Not necessary.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Tue Dec 22 12:42:13 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> Package: empathy 2.28.1.1-0ubuntu1
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic-pae
> SourcePackage: empathy
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic-pae i686
>
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[Omer Akram (om26er)]

this is ofcource a feature request/upstream. i reported it upstream so plz some one change it to triaged

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606528
I'm going to mark it as Triaged and wait for upstream to work on this. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better! Please report any other issues you may find.

Just a note, I think the request as it was upstreamed is fine, but the request in the description seems like something that most users wouldn't expect or need.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Guillaume Desmottes [empathy developer]:
"This feature has been asked on the mailing list recently and I explained why we
probably won't implement such feature."

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

closing as wont fix as per previous explanation.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Marking WONTFIX per upstream. Please see http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/telepathy/2009-October/003950.html