[Adium-devl] Should an AIMetaContact set containedObjects' aliases?

[Augie Fackler]

On May 30, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Zachary West wrote:

> When we're setting an alias for an AIMetaContact, should we update the
> aliases of all contained objects?

I've often wondered why we don't do this.

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> As it stands right now, the sub-contacts all can be in a varying state
> of aliased and unaliased, with various aliases on their own, which
> leads to various confusing situations on both other clients and our
> own. The expanded meta contact information, for example, makes the
> display confusing and laughable. "evands" is: "evands", "Evan
> Schoenberg", "theadiumtester". This isn't right.
>
> Maybe expanded meta contacts should only show the -formattedUID, along
> with forcing an alias set to all the contained objects?

That sounds reasonable to me.
Augie


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