[Pidgin] #7056: group contacts based on email/JID/Passport

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#7056: group contacts based on email/JID/Passport
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 Reporter:  BUGabundo                                       |        Owner:              
     Type:  enhancement                                     |       Status:  closed      
Milestone:                                                  |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.5.1                                           |   Resolution:  duplicate   
 Keywords:  groups,expand,collapse,contacts, UI,Uniformity  |  
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Comment(by rlaager):

 Replying to [comment:9 BUGabundo]:
 > #336 should be a dupe of this one, and not the other way around, since
 this one as much more discussion.

 More discussion is not necessarily better. For example, in this case, I'd
 prefer to boil down the useful points here and update the description on
 #336, which is what I just finished doing.

 I think time has proven the URL idea in #336 isn't really necessary, so
 I've updated it to reflect the idea of using email-based comparison, as
 you've suggested here. This is also more useful today, when we have
 AIM/ICQ & Yahoo/MSN interoperation.

 > What do u mean with:
 > > we know *for certain* they are the same account on a given service.
 >
 > Do you mean group on the same service, or cross service?

 The proposal that I've made will NOT group "rlaager" on AIM with "rlaager"
 on Yahoo, because they're not necessarily the same (and in this example,
 are not). It will, however, group richielaager on AIM with richielaager on
 ICQ. The revised proposal would also group rlaager on Yahoo with the Yahoo
 buddy "rlaager" on MSN and both of those with the MSN buddy with a
 passport of "rlaager at yahoo.com" (if that's still possible).

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