GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 260851
Contact name popup menu in new-message window needs "Edit Contact" option
Last modified: 2013-09-13 00:50:52 UTC
Description of Problem: When writing a new email or a reply, right-clicking on the underlined (Evo-grokked) contact name displays a popup menu. The first option on this menu is confusing. It contains a contact card icon and the full name of the contact. Expected results: I think selecting this item should open a Contact Editor window for this contact. Furthermore, the menu item should be more clearly labeled, i.e. "<icon> Edit Eric Lambart" rather than just the present "<icon> Eric Lambart" which does not even imply that it is a clickable menu option. Actual results: I swear I just opened a contact editor window by clicking on the above-mentioned option, but the window was read-only, so I could not update the contact info. I am also unable to get it to bring up the edit window consistently for other contacts. If this MenuItem was never intended to be a clickable shortcut to edit/view the contact's information (though I think it *should* be), the should be made clear by making the MenuItem insensitive, or better yet, making it the title of the popup menu, rather than the MenuItem which it seems to be.
related to bug#268591
hi eric, ok, marking my bug as a dup of this one and adding keyword. fyi: double-clicking on the emailaddress opens a read-only contact editor.
*** bug 268004 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** bug 268591 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** bug 245140 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
adding dependency to bug 216073.
editing works again in evolution-2.1.4.0.200502040900-0.snap.ximian. 10.1 (see resolved bug 245454 about the contact editor being read-only) , however you're still right that it's not obvious that selecting the first item opens the contact editor, and it's still buggy (see bug 216073). i'd also like to see an "Edit" right before the name. contact card icon is missing in 2.1.4 - regression. removing wrong dependency to bug 216073.
still valid in evolution-2.2.0.0.200503210410-0.snap.ximian.10.1, retargetting to 2.3. this requires string changes.
still valid in 2.3.5.1
Created attachment 49441 [details] [review] patch file This involves a string change.
committed the patch to cvs head.
yeah, fixed in 2.3.7, verifying.