[Pidgin] #11764: Account Names

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#11764: Account Names
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 Reporter:  tristangrimaux  |        Owner:           
     Type:  enhancement     |       Status:  pending  
Milestone:                  |    Component:  libpurple
  Version:  2.6.2           |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  account name    |  
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Changes (by tristangrimaux):

  * status:  pending => new


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:1 darkrain42]:
 > The !PurpleAccount structure has a username field, which holds the
 ''name'' of the account, as wel as an 'alias' field (local alias displayed
 for your sent messages in conversation windows and various other places).
 Accounts can also have per-account buddy icons


 The accountname is not the name of the user, and the icon is not the buddy
 icon.

 Suppose you connect to the campus server, an XMPP server. And you have a
 contact named Marie. She says hello! so a popup appears saying: Marie says
 Hello! You have to open the chat dialog, ask for the properties of the
 contact to see where does she comes from. The popup should say something
 like:

 Marie from The Campus says Hello!

 'The Campus' is the name of the account. It could be ServerAlias but you
 can name the account something like:

 My Bussiness Gtalk

 and the popups will say something like

 George Tate from My Bussiness GTalk says Hello!

 You can have multiple GTalk, or FacebookChat or any other, connecting to
 the same server.

 > What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
 Please let me know if there is something to explain in more detail.

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