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Kopete (the KDE instant messanger) supports grouping of serveral contacts into meta-contacts. Eg. if you've a friend who uses several messenger services (ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk), then you can have a single item in your contact list grouping all the various accounts of that one person. The question is which contact are you going to talk to if you double-click the name in the contact list? If all of the sub-contacts of the given meta-contact are online, then Kopete takes the default from the first contact that became part of the meta-contact. Putting it in other words: the default will be the contact that you used to assign other sub-contacts to.

You cannot change the default sub-contact in the UI, but you can do it in the config file of Kopete: $HOME/.kde/share/apps/kopete/contactList.xml. Look for the <meta-contact> nodes and the contactId attribute. However I suggest you make a backup of the contact list before you start messing in it. You might break it if you make inapproriate changes.