[Bug 298030] Telepathy/KDE should show contact's account type in contact list

[Dennis Schridde]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298030

--- Comment #2 from Dennis Schridde <devurandom at gmx.net> ---
Then, what is your proposal for the multiple-contact issue, where even their
JID is exactly the same, so the contact list tooltip does not allow to
determine the account that will be used?

I would think adding one line to the top of the chat view (i.e. into the
chatlog) "Smith <remote at foo> <-> Murphy <you at bar>" to immediately see what
accounts are being used would not be very disruptive.

Reasoning: Hiding this information from the user is one of the most annoying
mis-features of many IM clients, IMO. Especially if the secrecy goes so far as
that the client also hides their JID from me when looking at the contact list
(Telepathy/KDE does not do this, but many seem to), so that you have no clue
with which of my own accounts I am talking to which of their accounts... Which
is definitely a problem, since many transports (e.g. Facebook, ICQ, MSN, ...)
seem to be broken for some users, so I would like to avoid them. Most users
lack the interest in these concepts, hence I would like Telepathy/KDE to assist
(me) in communication channel selection (that includes using a different
channel after being messaged over the "wrong" one) with as much information as
possible.

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