Hi, sorry for delay > It seems an interesting feature, maybe an addon API is an overmuch, would > be > > better to leave to the apps this task? (by providing the needed > > class/methods) > > Yes, I considered this. I was mainly thinking of cases where no > dedicated app would exist eg. gmail. It would be nice to have the > ability to open a 'sync' panel in the preflet and press 'sync contacts > with gmail' or 'sync contacts with all external sources'. It's a motivation more than reasonable to make a little addon API. > > * Allow add / see and modify contacts in a simple and fast way > > * Attributes editing > > * Contacts merge feature > > * Simple but powerful search mechanism > > * Allow to make groups of contacts > > * Contacts sync settings > > That seems like a good list. How do you plan to integrate this with > the People app? Would all the editing of contacts be done by People, > or would you merge it into the Contacts preflet? > People is an app tailored to do simple contact editing. I think that it must remain a stand alone app. I like it's simplicity. I'm thinking something like that : You open the contacts preflet, then select a contact from the list and then click "Edit", a People window will appear. If you select another contact, the existing People window will display the new contact (using BMessage internally). Regards --Dario