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Bug 477952 - Add "Name day" field to Contact/Personal information
Add "Name day" field to Contact/Personal information
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Contacts
3.4.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-addressbook-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-09-18 06:23 UTC by Akhil Laddha
Modified: 2021-05-19 11:34 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Akhil Laddha 2007-09-18 06:23:53 UTC
"Name days are a tradition of attaching personal names to each day of the year,
and celebrating the association of particular days with those for whom that day
is named. It is common in large parts of Europe. The tradition originates from
the Christian church calendar and the tradition to name children after saints,
although in many countries it has no connection to the church anymore."
(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namesdays)

Name days are important to celebrate (and to not forget about them) in some
parts of the world. It would be nice to add a field "Name day" to
Contact/Personal information (next to Birthday and Anniversary).


(In theory, it could be possible to compute the name day date from the
contact's given name, but additional information would be needed for that -
nationality and/or religious preference. For less common names not included in
the standard calendars, the date is usually not computable at all. Therefore,
it is probably easier to fill the information by hand.)
Comment 1 Akhil Laddha 2007-09-18 06:24:46 UTC
OpenSUSE 10.3 bug in bnc
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=277797
Comment 2 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-11 00:36:46 UTC
Bumping version to a stable release.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2012-06-16 22:18:44 UTC
I'd see more sense if there was some server with API for this, or some distribution package with API to query/include automatically when creating new contacts...
Comment 4 André Klapper 2021-05-19 11:34:00 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. 
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
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