Bug 154404 - Gaim "Authorization Request" dialog needs ICQ search feature
Summary: Gaim "Authorization Request" dialog needs ICQ search feature
Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: GNOME (show other bugs)
Version: Alpha 2
Hardware: i686 SLED 10
: P4 - Low : Enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jared Allen
QA Contact: E-mail List
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Keywords: should_go_upstream
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Reported: 2006-03-01 16:11 UTC by Ted Haeger
Modified: 2010-11-30 16:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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This is the gaim authorization request dialog (14.33 KB, image/png)
2006-03-01 16:13 UTC, Ted Haeger
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Description Ted Haeger 2006-03-01 16:11:38 UTC
Some IM services, like ICQ, do not have intuitive names. Also, many people use obscure handles in Instant Messenger. This makes it difficult to know whether an Authorization Request is valid or not.

I will attach graphic of an ICQ request for an example.

ICQ has a simple URL for checking profiles online:
http://www.icq.com/whitepages/about_me.php?uin=152202004

It turns out that the request in this case was from some guy in Japan seeking hot gay chat with me. Since I already have a relationship with a lonely septagenarian man in Nagasaki, I declined. But the point is that I had to manually search ICQ, which makes it difficult to assert the identity of the requestor.)

So, ideally, there would be a "Who is this?" button that brokers the link for the user. (And if the button were backed by a simple configuration file that could be adapted when the URL's change, that would be a great way to fix the issue.)

Finally, I realize that we have far more important issues before release, so please take this as a suggestion/request for the future.
Comment 1 Ted Haeger 2006-03-01 16:13:23 UTC
Created attachment 70826 [details]
This is the gaim authorization request dialog
Comment 2 Stanislav Brabec 2006-03-02 11:53:03 UTC
Gaim itself has a search dialog. The problem is, that the dialog is not offered frm this window (or even called automatically).

Is this fixed in Gaim2? If yes, can we backport it?
Comment 3 JP Rosevear 2006-03-02 13:45:28 UTC
Doubtful, gaim2 has changed a lot.
Comment 5 Hans Petter Jansson 2008-02-01 00:41:29 UTC
Verified this with throwaway accounts and MSN protocol in Pidgin 2.3.1, and it looks like there have been no relevant changes since then.

Upstreamed the bug to http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/4715 - marking LATER.
Comment 6 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:10:25 UTC
mass reopening of later+remind bugs of 11.0
Comment 7 Forgotten User Xh41Ao4q6j 2010-11-29 00:50:56 UTC
This bug belongs to SLED so it should be closed as invalid for openSUSE. 

If bug still exists in newer versions of openSUSE which  is currently 11.2 and above, please reopen the report and set "Product:" information to affected version.