GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 269711
Need Alphabetic tabs in Contact Database
Last modified: 2005-01-03 19:51:32 UTC
Distribution: Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) Package: Evolution Priority: Major Version: GNOME2.8.0 2.0.2 Gnome-Distributor: Red Hat, Inc Synopsis: Need Aphabetic tabs in Contact Database Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Contacts [was: Addressbook] Bugzilla-Version: 2.0.2 Description: Please describe your feature request: All released versions of Evolution had alphabetized tabs for the Contact database. When you went there you could very easily find a user. Now there is nothing except one large flat list. Removing this capability permanently is a big mistake because it will cause a potential reduction in productivity. I really don't care if you can pull up people automatically with completion when you send mail, what if you have a name and telephone number and no email address. What if you want to consolidate entrie? Currently it is now very dysfunctional. You can leave the view, just requiry that it be turned on through gconf, but to remove it is just stupid. It makes the tool look less professional. It makes it look like the developers were too lazy to put in the functionality. Keep in mind that Evo 2 and beyond will be the first time some people have ever seen evolution... Please put that back in!!! Unknown reporter: samurai@acm.org, changed to bugbuddy-import@ximian.com. Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
if you'd take a quick look to the search bar, you could enter your favourite letter and push the enter button. soon all names (ok, first names and surnames) in your contact base will appear. ;-) ...and nowadays you do not have to scroll anymore to letters at the end of the alphabet - that's an advantage! ;-) i am more than sure that this is a WONTFIX and that the ximian guys really did have enough reasons to not support the abc tabs anymore (maintaining or i18n issues) - sorry. :-/
*** bug 255787 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Please could you let us know why this functionality has been removed? I've searched on Google and the Bugzilla, but can't find out why the decision was taken. I understand the i18n difficulties, but I'd really like to be able to explain to my distraught wife why her alphabet buttons have gone!
Reopening and reassigning to design team just in case they want to comment.
Actually what Andre Klapper said was right: see the thread about "How the contact card is classfied by alphabets" in http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/2004-February/ Closing again. Sorry about this