[Pidgin] #4284: Aliasing a collapsed contact changes the alias of the top buddy instead of the contact alias

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#4284: Aliasing a collapsed contact changes the alias of the top buddy instead of
the contact alias
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 Reporter:  dvsing                                   |       Type:  defect
   Status:  new                                      |   Priority:  minor 
Component:  pidgin (gtk)                             |    Version:  2.3.0 
 Keywords:  contact alias change collapsed expanded  |    Pending:  0     
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 When right clicking a collapsed contact and selecting "Alias..." the alias
 that is changed is the alias for the top-listed buddy account.  This is
 not the expected behavior if you assume that Pidgin should be a contact-
 based application which abstracts away the details of any particular IM
 protocol/account.

 I suggest two possible solutions:
 a) right clicking a collapsed contact and clicking "Alias..." will change
 the alias of the contact only.
 b) right clicking a collapsed contact would give multiple options such as
 "Alias <buddy account type>, or "Alias contact..." so it is explicit as to
 what you are aliasing.

 Personally, I like to have all of my contacts aliased, but the buddy
 accounts within these contacts I believe should retain their naked buddy
 account names.  When I realized that I wasn't really doing what I thought
 I was doing by right clicking collapsed contacts, it was very tedious to
 go back and remove the alises of all of the buddy accounts.  Currently the
 only way to alias a contact is to expand the contact, and then right click
 the top-level contact and change the alias -- at the least, it should be
 much easiser to change the alias of a contact in a contact-based IM system
 like Pidgin.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4284>
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