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Bug 722150 - Addressbook switching seems completely broken
Addressbook switching seems completely broken
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 727804
Product: gnome-contacts
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Contacts maintainer(s)
GNOME Contacts maintainer(s)
Depends on: 722152 722579
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-01-14 02:09 UTC by Michael Catanzaro
Modified: 2014-04-08 16:09 UTC
See Also:
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Description Michael Catanzaro 2014-01-14 02:09:30 UTC 
When starting Contacts for the first time or when selecting Change Address Book from the application menu, the user is prompted to choose a primary address book.  But there is no explanation of what the primary address book is, or how it differs from secondary address books. I don't even know what changing my address book does: it doesn't seem to affect the list of contacts that are displayed.

I've been using Contacts since 3.2, and I still have not figured it out how it works.  I don't think a nontechnical user has any chance. :/
Comment 1 Michael Catanzaro 2014-01-14 02:22:07 UTC 
And this is not a dup of Bug #705888 -- I've restarted Contacts and still no changes.
Comment 2 Michael Catanzaro 2014-03-19 14:14:14 UTC 
I'm pretty sure addressbook switching is just completely broken. Let's use Bug #722151 as the docs bug.
Comment 3 Allan Day 2014-04-08 10:05:33 UTC 
Switching the address book primarily affects where new contacts are stored, and which contacts can be edited. I've recently updated the address book dialog design to explain this (see bug 727804), and we should do the same for the first run dialog.

Do you think that this will resolve this issue, or is something else necessary?
Comment 4 Michael Catanzaro 2014-04-08 15:51:51 UTC 
I think that looks good, yes. Thanks!
Comment 5 Allan Day 2014-04-08 16:09:02 UTC 
Cool, I'll mark this as a dupe then. I've also filed bug 727842 for the first run setup dialog.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 727804 ***