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Bug 200602 - Need a configurable list of contact folders for completion and other automatic addressbook tasks.
Need a configurable list of contact folders for completion and other automati...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Contacts
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Anna Marie Dirks
Evolution QA team
: 201014 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 200601 216725
 
 
Reported: 2000-09-19 19:56 UTC by Dan Winship
Modified: 2013-09-10 14:02 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description Dan Winship 2000-09-19 19:56:33 UTC
The mailer should be able to set a default contact folder for the address
picker to use. The user should be able to select an alternate one.
Comment 1 Chris Lahey 2001-01-02 18:26:12 UTC
*** bug 201014 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Luis Villa 2001-06-26 18:19:00 UTC
I apologize for the spam; re-setting all target milestones to 'future'
in preparation for evolution 1.0. If you have any questions, please feel
free to write louie@ximian.com.
Comment 3 James Ogley 2001-10-04 09:23:32 UTC
Info: This bug is still present in 0.15 (was fixed in 0.13, but back
in 0.14 IIRC)
Comment 4 Dan Winship 2001-12-04 22:55:42 UTC
You at least need to be able to say "this folder should/shouldn't
be included in autocompletion" and "this folder should/shouldn't
be available in e-select-names"
Comment 5 Chris Lahey 2002-01-21 02:21:05 UTC
Is there some reason we don't want all contact folders to show up in
e-select-names as they do now?  There's an option menu letting you
pick which folder you want to search.  The other is important though.
 We should also let the user pick whether contacts in that folder will
make the mailer automatically download images if they have that option
set.

Not sure where to put these in the gui.  The addressbook doesn't
currently have any per book configuration.  Any ideas are welcome as
to how this would be accomplished.  Perhaps in a menu item like
View->Threaded is in the mailer?  Alternatively, we could have a
dialog in the addressbook options that lets you build a list using add
& remove and a folder chooser dialog.  Similar to the vfolder dialog,
this would have checkboxes for all local folders or all folders.

I like the second idea better because it more conveys the idea of
bringing a bunch of information together in one place.

The first idea instead conveys that you have a bunch of different
information which is optionally included.  This also has the problem
that the option doesn't actually effect that view, but instead how
that view is used elsewhere.

Both are valid views, but the second one is less confusing for the user.
Comment 6 Dan Winship 2002-04-01 22:39:39 UTC
*** http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22774 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Anna Marie Dirks 2002-04-09 21:22:24 UTC
Made myself an evolution task for this. see http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23241
Comment 8 Gerardo Marin 2002-07-17 16:55:38 UTC
It looks to me that this works pretty well in 1.1 now, isn't it?
Comment 9 Dan Winship 2002-07-17 17:01:51 UTC
yes