[chucker]

(You may be wondering why I'm posting an answer to my own question here. Well, it's so mind-boggingly stupid that I figured others might suffer the same weirdness, so, uh, yeah.)

Yeah, sounds easy enough, doesn't it? You move all contacts inside the group elsewhere, or get rid of all of them, so that the group is empty. You collapse the group so that the statistics show, and they say "0/0". No contacts online in the group, and no contacts at all in the group. Then you select the group — oh wait, can't do that — , so you go to the group's contextual menu instead and select Delete — oh wait, can't do that — , so you drag it to the trash — nope, not either. And at this point, you're stumped. You can create a group. You can rename a group. But you can't delete one!

Except, it's actually quite simple. Sign out and back in, or quit and relaunch. There, gone. No traces.



That interface could use some work.

[billybobsky]

No brained lemming!

[chucker]

No, sorry, such software behaviour is just brainless. I even waited for a few minutes for the group by itself. Apparently it takes a manual resync with the server or whatever.

[billybobsky]

I don't disagree with you... I just like the idea of a truly brainless lemming...

[chucker]

Fortunately, I haven't sunken quite that low just yet