[Pidgin] #11764: Account Names

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#11764: Account Names
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 Reporter:  tristangrimaux    |        Owner:           
     Type:  plugin request    |       Status:  new      
Milestone:  Plugin Suggested  |    Component:  libpurple
  Version:  2.6.2             |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  account name      |  
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Old description:

> Accounts have no name. I went down to _PurpleAccount in account.h and
> there is no room for actually naming a account. If a user has a lot of
> different accounts, on GMail, Facebook and Private XMPP servers, he will
> have a list of XMPP icons with username's... no account name.
>
> Suppose there is a notification, and User Foo is online, it would be
> great to have a notification stating "Foo from Facebook is online".
>
> This could be added on 3.0.0 along with the hash tables.
>
> Custom icons -for the account, not the user- will help too, as there is
> no need to create a new protocol when everybody is using XMPP (thank
> God!)

New description:

 Dear Lord! I misinterpreted -as many, as I see in the tickets #6824, #4107
 and #5918- what does ''Local Alias'' mean. I was using the LocalAlias
 option to set a Display Name for my account. Account Name, that's what it
 is. Thanks for pointing that out.

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Comment(by tristangrimaux):

 Replying to [comment:3 darkrain42]:
 > This request is best implemented as a plugin.  Currently we as Pidgin
 developers are not interested in implementing it.  This ticket remains
 open as an invitation for someone to write a plugin fulfilling the
 request.[[BR]]All of this functionality is currently possible via plugins
 (and I still don't see why you can't use the Account Local Alias for what
 you're describing)

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