GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 674588
Only suggest to link with contacts in default address book
Last modified: 2013-04-30 15:42:02 UTC
We make a distinction between 'My Contacts', which are stored in the default address book, and those that aren't ('Other Contacts'). We normally only display contacts in the default address book, so it doesn't make any sense to suggest to link to a contact that isn't in there. Instead just show the 'Add to My Contacts button'. See bug 674456.
We added this feature (linking an other-contact to another other-contact) due to a request from the empathy people: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-contacts/commit/?id=9d38224d24d4b6d8fd002f0089e67274be91a946 Without it it wasn't possible/easy to link together two telepathy contacts which you could previously do in the empathy UI (but can't now, since its relying on gnome-contacts for linking). Of course, linking two such contacts works by creating an eds contact with the IM data for the too, so this will implicitly make the contact a "my-contact".
If linking also adds to My Contacts this is a bit better. We should probably make that explicit though.
Yeah; we really shouldn't prevent from linking Telepathy contacts. But I agree, it should be clearer that this will add the contact to the local abook.
We don't have my/other contacts any more.