[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #9374: People GUI should support vCard contacts
- From: "stippi" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:05:35 -0000
#9374: People GUI should support vCard contacts
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Reporter: heidi | Owner: stippi
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: User Interface | Version: R1/alpha4.1
Resolution: | Keywords: People, contacts, GUI, vCard
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by stippi):
First of all, I think this ticket might be a duplicate. I have this faint
memory that this was already requested in a ticket.
Secondly, a while ago, I rewrote People to generate the UI based on the
defined attributes of the Person file type. In other words, when the user
goes into the FileTypes preflet and adds or removes attributes in the
Person file type, the People UI will adjust to the changes. People being
more or less a demo level application, I think this is how it ought to
have worked in the first place, but never mind. In any case, the "manage
fields" functionality is already there by being delegated to FileTypes.
(There may even be a menu option in People which launches FileTypes, don't
remember.)
In the other feature requrest for vCards, I think someone suggested to let
the content of Person files be in vCard format. To me, it sounds like a
good approach. It would duplicate the information in the file attributes
and the file content, with the potential of both places becoming out of
sync, yes, but it would not be any different from how Mail files are
stored right now. The user basically just uses tools to view and edit
those files, and those tools just need to be aware of the content
duplication. Of course if you change the birthday in Tracker and Tracker
doesn't update the vCard content, then it's the same as when changing the
subject of a Mail in Tracker and the Mail contents not actually updating.
Some of it can be prevented but also less convenient by making attributes
non-editable. But for the majority of use-cases, it should be much easier
to handle than the user needing to export as vCard from within People.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/9374#comment:3>
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