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Bug 687893 - Distinction between contact Edit and Information actions is unclear
Distinction between contact Edit and Information actions is unclear
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 669747
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Meta Contacts
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-11-08 01:44 UTC by Travis Reitter
Modified: 2013-01-04 14:09 UTC
See Also:
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Description Travis Reitter 2012-11-08 01:44:05 UTC 
The split is entirely technical and historical; Edit existed first and it's for editing Telepathy contact attributes. Information used to just display more contact metadata, but now it opens that contact in Gnome Contacts.

It's partly confusing because some types of editing (like contact linking) can only happen in Gnome Contacts. Thus, the user, trying to edit a contact, may need to explicitly choose "Information" over "Edit".

See bug 687856 comment 1.
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2013-01-04 14:09:23 UTC 
You're totally right, the tricky part is groups, see bug #669747

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 669747 ***