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[Kopete] Kopete shows ICQ number by default??

Cyberwizzard

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Saturday, May 8th 2004, 2:50pm

[Kopete] Kopete shows ICQ number by default??

Hi,

I got a problem with Kopete: everytime I create my profile (which is fairly often due to the fact that I use multiple computers and keep renewing my installs) most of my ICQ contacts have only their ICQ number showing. When I request the user info from the server I see the name of the person in the contact list.
However, the ICQ server has a limit on the number of user lookups you can perform so after a few buddies the server tells me to stuff it and wait a while before I can continue.
But why doesn't Kopete load the nicknames when it imports the contact list from the server?? I have this problem on all my computers and by now all of em are running the latest stable release (0.8.1 if I'm not mistaken).
Is there a way to force Kopete to load all the nicknames at once? Because this is getting pretty annoying...

Thanks,
Cyberwizzard

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Sunday, May 9th 2004, 11:16am

Once you've fetched the contact name, go to the contact's Properties and disable 'Use the name given by the server'.

As you say, there is a limit on the number of user lookups you can do; if we did this automatically we'd get you rate-limited automatically. We are improving the ICQ code but we don't have many developers so progress is slow.
Will Stephenson
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