Change name

[anonymous]

When you change name, only you you can see it in the chat box. The receiver have the name of the account. I think a nickname value will be welcome.

Sorry for the english

[jim++]

I don't understand. You change name of yourself or name of a contact ?

[patrys@…]

I think he means that Gajim ignores vcard contents and always displays the

JID login part in roster until you manually rename your contacts.

[asterix]

Gajim uses JEP 172. And nick in vcard should not be shown in roster. The

one YOU want to show is shown in roster. When you add someone, you type the nick you want, if you don't type one we use the first part of JID right. It's impossible to ask vcard for every contact every foo minutes to see if he changed his nickname.

[patrys@…]

But it is possible to ask for vcard when adding him to the roster or when

a new message arrives from someone not in your roster (it's similar to asking for his avatar).

[asterix]

yes it is, but I don't think it's a good idea to use nickname from vcard:

when you add a contact, you type the nick you want, when he adds you, JEP 172 is used.

[patrys@…]

Most of the time I type the exact contents of the "nickname" field from

his vcard. That's why I think it could suggest it in the "add user" dialog. When I receive a message from someone not in roster, I don't get to type anything, instead I have to guess who uses "use[f71660865bf9b891e57785de92e7db8616f2cbc0]" as his login part. I don't want to add everyone to my roster as I already have more than 100 people there and prefer to only add ones I often talk to.

[patrys@…]

Or even better, replace the "enter name" box with a combobox which

autosuggests some predefined values:

• nickname
• first_name last_name
• first_name "nickname" last_name
• last_name, first_name

And still lets you enter anything you desire.

[asterix]

I don't understand what you want:

when I click "add contact" gajim can't guess what jid you'll type and ask his vcard. so it can't propose you the nick of his vcard

[patrys@…]

It can do it asynchronously. And when I click "add this user to roster,"

the JID is already there.