Bug 11702 – Twitter update overwrites nicknames

Bug 11702 - Twitter update overwrites nicknames


Summary:	Twitter update overwrites nicknames

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 5452

Product:	Hermes
Component:	General
Version:	unspecified
Platform:	N900 Maemo

Importance:	Unspecified normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	unassigned
QA Contact:	general

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Reported:	2010-12-18 20:20 UTC by Will Thompson
Modified:	2010-12-24 17:24 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Will Thompson (reporter) 2010-12-18 20:20:49 UTC

SOFTWARE VERSION: 0.8.7

EXACT STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM: 
1. Sync with Twitter

EXPECTED OUTCOME: 

My contacts' icons are updated.

ACTUAL OUTCOME:

My contacts' icons are updated, and their nicknames are replaced with their
Twitter usernames.

REPRODUCIBILITY: always

This is pretty annoying. It basically means I can't get decent icons for my
friends who use Twitter but not Facebook without manually deleting all the
Twitter-username nicknames for the contacts I have shortcuts for.

It would be less annoying if existing nicknames weren't trampled on. But I
don't think this is very useful behaviour in any case.

Comment 1 Andrew Flegg maemo.org

2010-12-18 22:03:38 UTC

Nicknames are a feature; however they shouldn't be being trampled on. Can you
confirm the "Steps to reproduce" please? For example, are you clicking
_Retrieve_ or _Refresh_?

Assuming you're "retrieving" missing info, I'll treat this as the "nicknames
shouldn't be overwritten". Could you raise an enhancement request to make
"nicknames from twitter" optional, please?

Thanks in advance,

Andrew

Comment 2 Will Thompson (reporter) 2010-12-20 13:58:18 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Nicknames are a feature; however they shouldn't be being trampled on. Can you
> confirm the "Steps to reproduce" please? For example, are you clicking
> _Retrieve_ or _Refresh_?

I think I hit Refresh. I actually have no idea what the difference between the
two is. If “Refresh” means “overwrite local info, rather than only adding
missing info” then I guess I got what I asked for.

> Assuming you're "retrieving" missing info, I'll treat this as the "nicknames
> shouldn't be overwritten". Could you raise an enhancement request to make
> "nicknames from twitter" optional, please?

Absolutely: bug 11706.

Comment 3 Andrew Flegg maemo.org

2010-12-20 14:36:27 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> If “Refresh” means “overwrite local info, rather than only adding
> missing info” then I guess I got what I asked for.

That's exactly what it means. Bug 5452 is dealing with a similar issue.
Improved wording so that people knew what they were getting would be
appreciated.

Comment 4 Will Thompson (reporter) 2010-12-24 17:24:30 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > If “Refresh” means “overwrite local info, rather than only adding
> > missing info” then I guess I got what I asked for.
> 
> That's exactly what it means. Bug 5452 is dealing with a similar issue.
> Improved wording so that people knew what they were getting would be
> appreciated.

I suppose this is obvious in retrospect, reading the 10 words on the screen a
little more closely. Okay, let's mark this as a dup of 5452 tbh. I can't think
of better wording off-hand…

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 5452 ***