Edit contact details (username, SIP number, avatar)

In the profile card, an user should be able to set a display name for a contact, change the number if it's a SIP contact or change the avatar

Hi, I would like to add myself to this issue/solution.

Thank you :-)

@Hxs2fJKjYZ you mean receive the notifications or start to work on it? Sorry I didn't see you messages

Sorry for confusion, I meant as a requested feature.

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@ovari I edited the text of the issue to add some changes

@mzhang I assigned to you for the Qt client :)

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mentioned in issue #734 (closed)

Can the description be updated to so that multiple SIP numbers can be added to a contact? Thank you

mentioned in issue #434 (closed)

I use a SIP account to call landlines and cellular phones from a Windows 10 desktop. Jami shows only the phone numbers of my contacts - nothing more. Unless I recognize a phone number, there is no point of having Jami store it as a "contact"; I might as well look it up, copy it and paste it into Jami each time I have to make a call. For the contact list to be useful, the user needs to see a name next to each number.

The absence of this feature makes Jami largely useless. I've been looking for an alternative to Wire since it's moved its servers to the usa but Jami cannot deliver without this ability.

I have found workaround for latest Linux version. Go to ~/.local/share/jami/XXXXX/profiles - there are contact list vcard files. XXXXX - profile id (if you have many profiles). Open .vcf file of needed contact and set name after FN:

Thanks for your posting.

1. Does the change remain when when you call your contact?
2. Should the vCard version be updated from version 2.1 to version 4.0 (the latest standard)?
3. When exporting an account, do the changed contact details get exported and imported too?

Will be nice when updating this will be available via the GUI. The Jami developers are creating a wonderful program.

https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/ring-project/issues/899

Yes, change remain if I call contact. No, looks like it affect only local change, network or file export does not affected.

mentioned in issue #899 (closed)

Merging the history of an old, abandoned account into a new one would also be useful (deleting the old account in the process). In reality, one of my contacts will eventually lose a password and lock themselves out of their account permanently; migrating to a new one should ideally be easy.

This is not possible. Your id is linked to the fingerprint of your account's key.

Running his own nameserver or using JAMS (jami.net/services) avoid this issue.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. If someone else, not me, loses their password, and makes a new account, and tells me about it, I want to copy their avatar image, conversation history etc. to the conversation of their new account. This only changes the data held in my Jami instance. I tell Jami "New Person X2 is Person X1, copy everything".

I have tried the workaround 667bdrm had proposed, it worked for me. However, it would be nice to implement this feature into the GUI to make Jami a smooth application for everybody, not only for nerds.

Translating the workaround to Windows 10.

• Go to the user's AppData\Local\jami folder.
• Open the profile folder. Its name is a long alphanumeric string. There may be several profiles.
• Open the .vcf file for the contact in a text editor.
• Replace the string after FN: (for SIP accounts, this is a phone number) with the contact's name.
• Save the file.

I would to see the Jami conversation request tab be changed to the contacts tab which can store any saved contact in an encrypted format. It will have the following fields

Name
Jami ID/Username

This will allow you to set names to contacts that do not set a name for themselves or a usernames so you know who is who and who you are talking to.

And to have the ability to import/export your contacts in an encrypted compressed file like a GZ file which can be backed up.

And to have your contact list be synced with your other devices.

The contact list should be per account. So if you have two account and you use both accounts to talk to one person. You would need to have their contact saved in the contact list of both accounts.

the contact list is already shared in the sync data between 2 devices and already contained in the export.gz when you export an account

Has anybody found a workaround for Android to name conversations similar to what was proposed for Linux or Windows 10? In other words: Where is the information stored in Android smartphones? Thank you, Klaus

@Fietze try https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/ring-project/-/wikis/tutorials/Frequently-Asked-Questions#basics-5

The option to overwrite contact aliases and avatars (but not username or Jami Id, obviously) would be nice. However, in regards to renaming conversations, there are already some changes to the UI and the way conversations work with swarms coming.

Dear Nick, Thank you for your hint! Unfortunately, my search was not successful. The said directory "/data/data/cx.ring" contains only one sub-directory that looks promising, which is "/data/data/cx.ring/files": folder: 123456789abc folder: 123456789def folder: certificates folder: crls folder: ocsp folder: ringtones The only folders, where I can find *.vcf files are the ones with numbers. Each of them contains a file called "profile.vcf". From what I can see these are my profiles - one for the genuine Jami account; the other one for the sip account. To make sure that I have not missed out anything I also inspected the other folders in "cx.ring" but have not found any contact list. I'm afraid I will have to wait for the new user interface that may bring the desired improvements or not, we will see. Actually, I was hoping someone from Savoir-Faire joins in; they should know where they hide the conversations. Best regards, Klaus

mentioned in issue #1203 (closed)

mentioned in issue #1264 (moved)

mentioned in issue jami-libclient#497 (closed)

mentioned in issue #1452 (closed)

mentioned in issue #1466 (closed)

mentioned in commit jami-client-qt@b41e5867

For Desktop it will be available in next version

Version: 202303231552 or the next version?

https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux/jami-client-qt/-/wikis/Changelog

It would be useful if the changelog also includes the OS:

For example Windows / Linux-Distro(s) / Mac

ideally all release should be at the same time. But the version incldues the information of the date.

In a SIP account, when you click on the pencil icon to change the display name, the tooltip popup incorrectly shows Swarm's name. There is no swarm in SIP accounts.

Should is show something like Display name?

What do you think?

Thank you

indeed a bug

Can SIP accounts have Documents in the Details panel?

there is no file transfer in SIP

But it should be generally possible?

https://web.ist.utl.pt/~joao.a.p.antunes/projectsarticles/file-transfer-over-sip-on-jitsi/

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-garcia-sipping-file-sharing-framework-01.html

MMS should be supported first. For now, it's not planned. And this RFC is not planned neither by pjsip http://www.pjsip.org/sip_media_features.htm

Does that mean that it is a bug that Documents show in the Details panel for a SIP account?

I can change the contact name

but it does not persist, when closing and reopening Jami. I'm on flatpak though, version 20230922.1.ea5b2d65, but having granted access via flatseal to write, whereever Jami likes.

Can someone confirm? Or should I report to the flatpak repository?

Stupid me.. here the relevant issue jami-client-qt#1276 (closed)

mentioned in issue jami-client-qt#1424 (closed)

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