[Pidgin] #866: Fetch Yahoo contact details from server

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#866: Fetch Yahoo contact details from server
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 Reporter:  oblio                        |       Type:  enhancement
   Status:  new                          |   Priority:  minor      
Component:  pidgin (gtk)                 |    Version:  2.0        
 Keywords:  yahoo contact details alias  |    Pending:  0          
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 Hello.

 Pidgin has an "alias" mechanism, where you set an alias for each contact,
 to better describe them. This is useful, but limited to one computer.
 Yahoo has this option set as a list of contact details stored on their
 servers, so you set the contact details,  of which the ones that are most
 interesting are:

 '''- first name'''

 '''- last name'''

 '''- nickname'''

 and it fetches them from the server, on every computer where you login.
 It selects the alias to show for the contact, in this order: nickname ->
 first name+last name -> account name. That is: if you set a nickname, it
 show the nickname, if you don't it shows you the full name, if you don't
 set either, it show the account name.

 So Pidgin should try to fetch the Yahoo contact details from the server,
 instead of setting local aliases.

 For a simpler implementation, it could store the contact details in the
 local alias file. And when you set the alias (in the inteface), it could
 also send the data to Yahoo, as a nickname. Of course, a full
 implementation would be better, but that's sufficient :)

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/866>
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