From 286b28eabf39d98d642c73c34a16a599e61dfc99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wilmer van der Gaast Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:02:47 +0000 Subject: Added nick_source account setting to allow using full name fields for generating nicknames instead of just the handle. --- doc/user-guide/commands.xml | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/user-guide') 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 @@ + + handle + handle, full_name, first_name + + + + 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. + + + + With this setting set to full_name, the person's full name is used to generate a nickname. Or if you don't like long nicknames, set this setting to first_name 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. + + + + both both, root, user, none -- cgit v1.2.3