817389 - Show contacts groups for XMPP

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Instant Messaging, enhancement)

Description

[Yunier J.]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:20.0) Gecko/20121201 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20121201040208



Actual results:

I use jabber in my school and have the contacts grouped by interesting groups but with this features cant see my groups or diferenciate because all contacts shows in one list.

In Facebook, Twitter and Gtalk not necessary but for XMPP yes.


Expected results:

That show my contacts groups for XMPP.

Comment 1

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

This should work fine, are you sure your previous XMPP client stored the groups on the server?

Do you see any errors in the Error Console possibly related to this?

Comment 2

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

Ah, I was mistaken...the Thunderbird UI doesn't support groups.

Comment 3

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

Note that not showing groups may be by design, as it simplifies the UI a lot. (Contacts are sorted by status rather than by group.)

Comment 4

[Yunier J.]

Yes, it simplifies the UI a lot. But to very people like see the contacts per groups. 
Maybe it can be a featured to considerate add to Thunderbird in future versions.

Comment 5

[Ari Maniatis]

Once you pass several dozen users, groups are extremely useful. The existing grouping of offline/online is not terribly useful since it is rare you want to interact with offline contacts. They could instead just be hidden unless you decide to show them.

Comment 6

[aleth [:aleth]]

(In reply to Ari Maniatis from comment #5)
> Once you pass several dozen users, groups are extremely useful. The existing
> grouping of offline/online is not terribly useful since it is rare you want
> to interact with offline contacts. They could instead just be hidden unless
> you decide to show them.

It may be worth mentioning that the feature asked for here is pretty much what Instantbird does.