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authorJonny Lamb <jonny.lamb@collabora.co.uk>2012-04-10 18:06:00 -0400
committerJonny Lamb <jonny.lamb@collabora.co.uk>2012-04-10 18:06:00 -0400
commitb685ca8298eeb9953fa594f027b246ac1cfb4e72 (patch)
treeb5f0ce613b20f89c8820364280e77e23300431db
parent4c44d9cbfc081b6dafbaf9cdbc4dace74ab7b984 (diff)
Names: add note about calling SetLocalAlias on the self handlenext-names
Signed-off-by: Jonny Lamb <jonny.lamb@collabora.co.uk>
-rw-r--r--spec/Connection_Interface_Names1.xml8
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diff --git a/spec/Connection_Interface_Names1.xml b/spec/Connection_Interface_Names1.xml
index ae40e4ad..53ab7b38 100644
--- a/spec/Connection_Interface_Names1.xml
+++ b/spec/Connection_Interface_Names1.xml
@@ -246,6 +246,14 @@
>XEP-0165 "Best Practices to Discourage JID Mimicking"</a>)
to protocols other than XMPP.</p>
</tp:rationale>
+
+ <p>Note that calling this method for the self handle is rarely
+ useful and might not work. For example, on XMPP, calling
+ this method for the self handle will not set the local
+ nickname, but instead add yourself to your contact list and
+ update its local alias. To set the local nickname, use the
+ D-Bus properties interface to set the
+ <tp:member-ref>Nickname</tp:member-ref> property.</p>
</tp:docstring>
<arg name="Contact" type="u" tp:type="Contact_Handle" direction="in">