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| author | Wilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@gaast.net> | 2010-03-13 01:02:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Wilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@gaast.net> | 2010-03-13 01:02:47 +0000 |
| commit | 286b28eabf39d98d642c73c34a16a599e61dfc99 (patch) | |
| tree | c1d152c5c3e0e8353b7097a5aa521a761c6fe976 /doc/user-guide | |
| parent | 1be0d260da62542dd27b8a6f5d367a2e79191a8d (diff) | |
Added nick_source account setting to allow using full name fields for
generating nicknames instead of just the handle.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/user-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/user-guide/commands.xml | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml index a7d06cf1..931608ee 100644 --- a/doc/user-guide/commands.xml +++ b/doc/user-guide/commands.xml @@ -607,6 +607,21 @@ </description> </bitlbee-setting> + <bitlbee-setting name="nick_source" type="string" scope="account"> + <default>handle</default> + <possible-values>handle, full_name, first_name</possible-values> + + <description> + <para> + By default, BitlBee generates a nickname for every contact by taking its handle and chopping off everything after the @. In some cases, this gives very inconvenient nicknames. The Facebook XMPP server is a good example, as all Facebook XMPP handles are numeric. + </para> + + <para> + With this setting set to <emphasis>full_name</emphasis>, the person's full name is used to generate a nickname. Or if you don't like long nicknames, set this setting to <emphasis>first_name</emphasis> instead and only the first word will be used. Note that the full name can be full of non-ASCII characters which will be stripped off. + </para> + </description> + </bitlbee-setting> + <bitlbee-setting name="ops" type="string" scope="global"> <default>both</default> <possible-values>both, root, user, none</possible-values> |