[Pidgin] #3319: MSN group name display support

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#3319: MSN group name display support
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 Reporter:  manphiz                 |        Owner:  khc
     Type:  patch                   |       Status:  new
Milestone:  Patches Needing Review  |    Component:  MSN
  Version:  2.2.0                   |   Resolution:     
 Keywords:  msn group               |  
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Comment(by deryni):

 The msn-pecan patch is not "good" but it does "work". The choices as I see
 them currently are:
  1. Do nothing, leaves things as broken as they are now rendering these
 group chats unusable.
  1. 'Tag' each message with the P4-Context header as a prefix (so
 <timestamp> GroupName: P4Name: message) or some other similar tagging
 method.
  1. Use a patch like the one Felipe has in msn-pecan which sets the user
 settable alias for the buddy to the value of the P4-Context header for the
 duration of the message and then sets it back to whatever value it had
 previously afterwards.
  1. Determine what would be involved to allow libpurple to support
 additional tags of this sort (and potentially other sorts) for incoming
 (and outgoing?) messages.

 These options are listed in roughly the order they are easy to implement
 (I have placed the tag option about the alias patch option despite a patch
 for the latter existing because I think the tagging is less of an ugly
 hack).

 I think the first is a non-option at this point, I think the last is
 potentially useful but requires a longer timespan than is likely helpful,
 and between the middle two I like the tagging better than aliasing because
 it seems like less of a hack to me (as it doesn't potentially trigger tab
 title changes, window title changes, buddy list refreshing, etc.).

 A decision needs to be made on this point and some code committed, I have
 given my preference but am not going to make the decision as I don't use
 MSN in any real way.

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