[Pidgin] #4865: No GUI interface to change "Handle" (nick) while in XMPP chat after room has been created

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#4865: No GUI interface to change "Handle" (nick) while in XMPP chat after room
has been created
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  Reporter:  michaeljf     |       Owner:  lschiere
      Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:          
 Component:  unclassified  |     Version:  2.3.1   
Resolution:                |    Keywords:          
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by michaeljf):

 I first want to thank you for all your effort with this issue/request.

 I guess we are not seeing the same thing.  Let me explain what I do
 manually as it may help to explain what I am requesting.

 In order for others in a room to see me as a chosen name, I must change my
 "nick".  If I do this with the /nick command, the value will only be good
 for that session.  In order to keep this value, I must manually edit
 '''''C:\Documents and Settings\<USER NAME>\Application
 Data\.purple\blist.xml'''''


 {{{
 <component name='handle'>Foo</component>
 }}}


 By adding the above to the desired room's setting, my name (as seen by
 others) remains changed to '''Foo'''.  It is this option that I am
 requesting be made available somewhere in the GUI so that the file does
 not need to be altered manually.

 Hope this helps.


 Replying to [comment:5 deryni]:
 > My comment about the inappropriateness of the tab right-click menu is
 that the tab is not the chat room let alone the user in the room. The tab
 is an interface mechanism by which you multiplex conversations into the
 same window. You will notice if you right-click the tab in pidgin
 currently the available options all relate to tab functionality and not to
 tab content functionality. This is a distinction I feel is correct. I am
 less certain in my claims about the input and history areas, but I do
 believe I am right that they are also less than optimal for this sort of
 thing. If we were to have an MSN-like "this is who you are" pane in the
 window (similar to the infopane) then that would be a most appropriate
 place for such features, but I think most people (myself included) would
 find this unhelpful at best (and horribly annoying at worst).

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