[telepathy] [Bug 333739] New: Make it possible to configure which contact is the "primary" contact of a metacontact

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333739

            Bug ID: 333739
           Summary: Make it possible to configure which contact is the
                    "primary" contact of a metacontact
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: telepathy
           Version: 0.8.0
          Platform: unspecified
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: contactlist
          Assignee: kde-telepathy-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: colomar at autistici.org

Currently when merging two contacts, there is no way to influence which contact
becomes the "primary" one for the metacontact.
This is a problem if for example that person prefers one protocol for
communication when online in both, but the contact from the other protocol is
selected as primary.

This may sound like a geeky edge-case, but it's very real for example in the
case of my girlfriend. She has a Google+ account, but for chatting, she only
uses ICQ. However, her Google contact is still in my contact list since we of
course circled each other. Therefore if she logs into Google+ and I write a
message to her metacontact, it goes to her G+ even if she already closed the
tab.
It's similar with Hangouts vs. Jabber: I prefer open protocols, so I want to
chat with people via Jabber whenever possible, but if KTp/KPeople decides to
make someone's Hangouts contact the primary one, it's actually more cumbersome
(and downright impossible from the Contact List Plasmoid) to talk to that
person via Jabber when he or she is online in Hangouts.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Merge two contacts

Actual Results:  
You cannot influence which one is the primary

Expected Results:  
You can select which contact to make the primary one.

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