243181 - Get nick back when not in use any longer

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Other Applications Graveyard :: ChatZilla, enhancement)

Description

[Samuel LB]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 MultiZilla/1.6.2.0c
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 MultiZilla/1.6.2.0c

When your nick is in use ChatZilla adds an underscore to it. When the user who's
using your with disconnects (or timeouts) ChatZilla keeps the nick with the
underscore.

It would be great if there was an option to make ChatZilla /nick back to your
real nick when it's not in use anylonger!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Join some channel (for example with the nick crashDonkey)
2. Get disconnected
3. Enter the channel again (and get a nick like crashDonkey_)
4. Wait for your old connection to "QUIT Ping Timeout"
5. Look at your nick

Actual Results:  
ChatZilla keeps your old nick with the underscore (crashDonkey_).

Expected Results:  
ChatZilla should have changed your nick back to the nick (crashDonkey_ ->
crashDonkey).



I'm using ChatZilla version 0.9.63b

Comment 1

[Samuel LB]

I'm sure this is the same on all systems so i changed Hardware and OS -> All.

Comment 2

[Karsten Düsterloh]

That would mean (a) to remember that the _ got added and (b) to check every
leaving nick for resemblance with your own one...

Comment 3

[:Gijs (away/busy until Mar 10)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> That would mean (a) to remember that the _ got added and (b) to check every
> leaving nick for resemblance with your own one...


AFAIK, the IRC server will not tell you *all* joins / quits (only those in the
channels you're in). Meaning that you couldn't check for your original nick to
come free just by checking quits / disconnects within the channel. It may be
better to have it check for your original nickname to be free every x minutes /
seconds, and make the interval a pref. I personally think the notify list
interval should be a pref as well, instead of a global variable in client. 

Comment 4

[James Ross]

Actually, the best approach would be a combination of both.

The current implementation in 0.9.66e uses a simple interval of 15 seconds, each
time simply attempting to reclaim your nickname. It gives up if the time limit
elapses (I think it is 400 seconds), or you disconnect, you get the nickname you
want (through changing it yourself, or even picking a different one).

Comment 5

[James Ross]

FIXED.

This feature will be available in the next ChatZilla release, 0.9.67.