[Pidgin] #6236: Contact Grouping ignored with Openfire Roster Sharing

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Mon Jan 18 04:27:33 EST 2010


#6236: Contact Grouping ignored with Openfire Roster Sharing
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 Reporter:  Tobi    |        Owner:  nwalp 
     Type:  defect  |       Status:  closed
Milestone:          |    Component:  XMPP  
  Version:  2.4.2   |   Resolution:        
 Keywords:          |  
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Comment(by lemsto):

 Replying to [comment:6 darkrain42]:
 > Replying to [comment:5 lemsto]:
 > > Hey there,
 > >
 > > I too have this issue with contact groups using Pidgin 2.6.5 (and
 earlier 2.6 versions) and OpenFire 3.6.2.
 > >
 > > This is our corporate IM here and most of people are using the Spark
 XMPP client. A group containing all people from the company is provided by
 the server.
 > >
 > > Dragging people from that group to other groups works well with the
 Spark client. In fact it seems to create a copy of the contact to the new
 group, instead of moving it as Pidgin does.
 > >
 > > Is it possible to make a difference between user defined groups and
 server provided groups ? So moving contact from a group to another
 wouldn't have the same behaviour depending the source/target groups ?
 > >
 > > I'd say that no contacts can be added/removed from server provided
 groups ...
 > >
 > > Thanks in advance for answering,
 > >
 > > Regards.
 >
 > You can't override the fact Pidgin treats dragging as a move, but if you
 go to Buddies->Add Buddy and add people to a second group, those changes
 should be persisted across restarts of Pidgin.
 >
 > If they're not, please [http://d.pidgin.im/newticket file a new ticket]
 and attach the output of the Help->Debug Window when you add the second
 buddy.

 As you said those changes are persistent. Tanks for your help !
 I have to admit that I didn't try to add new contacts I already had.

 I understood that Pidgin treats dragging as a move. But even using menus,
 there is no way to simply copy a contact. Anyway, I managed to populate my
 groups ...

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