IRC: Kick ghost when using user pasword

Submitted by bay..@..il.com

Assigned to Telepathy bugs list

Link to original bug (#29249)

Description

Hi, i come from https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623535 Sure i dont know this software architecture, then sorry if i am at the wrong place.

Empathy use IRC authentication feature (with NickServ?). Sometime somebody already use our nickname, or a ghost of ourself is online (waiting for timeout).

NickServ allow to kick ghost/user, then empathy should:

*join IRC with a random available nickname *use NickServ to kick the ghost with our user/password *move to the final nickname *and use NickServ authication

ATM Empathy only return an error message like "nickname already used". And we must wait the ghost timeout. It is a big problem especially when we are using bad connexion like wifi...

Thanks.