Feature Request: Tabbed Contact/Buddy Lists by Protocol

[Ankit Singla]

Frank Lanitz wrote:
> Hi Julius, 
>
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:56:32 -0800
> "Julius Lee" <forcifer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> It would be really cool to have the option for a tabbed buddy list
>> window, with different protocols having their buddy lists on separate
>> tabs. This could me a lot neater for people who have a lot of
>> contacts on each protocol. What do you think?
>>     
>
> I don't like this idea very much. I've got a big number of contacts in
> my list (over all protocols > 100) and I prefer to have one list. If
> there is somebody who use different protocols I added all of his
> entries under one buddy (how is this called correctly?) 

It's called a contact. The buddy list is laid out as follows:

List
|_
|  Group
|  |_
|  |  Contact
|  |  |_
|  |  |  Buddy
|  |  |_
|  |     Buddy
|  |_
|     Contact
|     |_
|        Buddy
|_
   Group

So each buddy is in a contact and each contact can contain one or more 
buddies.

> so he (or her)
> got only one entry in contact list. 
>
> Frank
>
>
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