[Rtcomm] [Rtcomm] [Bug 5480] undo/un-merge merged contacts

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https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5480





------- Comment #23 from jamie at shareable.org  2009-12-06 20:46 GMT+3 -------
(In reply to comment #22)
> To savely unmerge an im-contact (i.e. without loosing the contact from the
> server)
> simply disable the im-account. Then delete the im-username from the merged
> contact. Reenable account, and the im-contact will be back as a stand-alone
> contact. HTH.

Thanks Jorgen.  It's good there's a workaround, but it sounds like plenty of
room for UI improvement in this area.  It's rather fragile, depending on the
user guessing correctly what something will do.  I would not have guessed that
disabling the IM account and deleting the contact would not delete the contact
at the next sync when the account was reenabled.

Right now because of these UI issues, I would be wary of trusting the contact
list with important IM accounts (like professional connections), only "play"
accounts where I had some other way to contact people if I made a mistake - as
others have lost contacts unexpectedly and permanently.  Witness here, just in
the few preceding remarks, disagreement over when deleting an IM contact
deletes it from the server.

By which I mean there is room for improvement in making the UI more robust
w.r.t. user expectations (which for IMs will vary among users due to their
different experiences on other devices).


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