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contact list merging
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:44 am
by nontoxic
I got a Powebook about 2 months ago and soon after discovered Adium and have been absolutely in love with it ever since. I haven't seen anything in adium's preferences for this so I figured I'd ask here. Is it possible with multiple accounts, to not have your contact lists merged? If it's not, is this possibly something that Adium could do in the future? Thanks in advance for any help.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:06 am
by Tipo 61
Contact lists are server based, so Adium can't really do anything about it. But, you can connect your account to an official client and export your buddy list, and load it with the second screenname. This is how AIM does it, but I don't know about any of the other protocols.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 5:51 am
by m2e
mayb create a group for each account. eg have a group called "
blahblah@hotmail.com" and have all ur contacts for that account in there. as far as i know u cant have 2 seperate contact lists.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:43 am
by zaudragon
m2e wrote:mayb create a group for each account. eg have a group called "
blahblah@hotmail.com" and have all ur contacts for that account in there. as far as i know u cant have 2 seperate contact lists.
And “mayb” “u” should spell correctly
That solution would seem the most logical; I think this is coming in 1.0…
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:06 am
by m2e
sorry about that:)
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 8:14 am
by newtonuk
Would using the Address Book integration and 'Consolidate contacts listed in the card' not offer a similar function?
I use this feature and only have one name shown for the same contact across multiple protocols!
It means keeping your Address Book Contacts up to date, but most folk do that anyway, don't they?
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:32 am
by evands
zaudragon wrote:That solution would seem the most logical; I think this is coming in 1.0…
Not as far as I am aware.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:36 pm
by nontoxic
evands wrote:zaudragon wrote:That solution would seem the most logical; I think this is coming in 1.0…
Not as far as I am aware.
So having the ability to keep contact lists from separate accounts separated is not coming to adium then? Dissappointed to hear it but keep up the good work none the less.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:21 pm
by evands
While there need to be improvements to managing separate contact lists, there is no sane reason to separate contact lists by account. Adium is a single instant messaging program and provides a single interface to all your instant messagig accounts.
One certainly could create groups and use them in a manner which effectively separates by account.
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:09 am
by zaudragon
evands wrote:zaudragon wrote:That solution would seem the most logical; I think this is coming in 1.0…
Not as far as I am aware.
Exactly… I thought… there was a ticket… or a changeset… or something
Guess not; don’t quote that anymore!