Ticket #186 (closed defect: fixed)

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The app uses your vCard to determine the name that is to be displayed. Something happened some time ago that cleared the names of a lot of people from their own vCards. If you had configured and used SAPO Messenger before this happened, then your name would have been cached locally and you would be still able to see it in chat windows.

So, no, it's not your fault.

Should we deal with this only when the vCard editor is implemented? Or should we let the user change its own name as a temporary workaround? The name chosen by the user would only be displayed locally and would never be sent to the server or the other contacts.

The quickest fix I can see is to show the JID of the user instead of the name.

We could move the vCard code up in the roadmap to fix this, but I think we should keep the eyes on the release 1 now, and wait for the vCard stuff to really fix this.

Unless you can wip a quick vcard editing interface, that is :)

(In [229]) When none of the connected accounts contains a valid user full name in the owner vCard, we now display the JID in the chat window message headers. Fixes #186.