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Bug 652663 - Split widgets out into folks-gtk
Split widgets out into folks-gtk
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-contacts
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Low normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Contacts maintainer(s)
GNOME Contacts maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-06-15 15:40 UTC by Philip Withnall
Modified: 2014-04-01 17:50 UTC
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Description Philip Withnall 2011-06-15 15:40:30 UTC 
Prototype the widgets in gnome-contacts and then move it into folks-gtk as appropriate.

Move translatable strings into folks itself.

Every widget exposing lists of individuals/personas will need a filtering function capability.

 • Single individual selector
 • Multi individual selector (also allow selecting groups as a whole)
 • Persona list for an individual
 • Pull-down list for contacting an individual
 • MUC setup widget/session management things (may be in a separate library so that it can link to Telepathy)
 • E-mail style type-ahead search for contacts
Comment 1 Travis Reitter 2011-09-28 18:07:22 UTC 
Additional widgets we'll need:

 • Individual display widget
   • with flag for showing all Personas - like EmpathyIndividualWidget
 • Individual link editor
   • needs union of functionality in Empathy's editor and Gnome Contacts's editor while being flexible to be as simple as the Gnome Contacts version
   • needs new functionality: show suggested links at the top of the list

All of these widgets (including Philip's, in comment #0) should be split out as their own dependent bugs.
Comment 2 Allan Day 2014-04-01 12:24:52 UTC 
Can you give a bit of background for this? It isn't clear to me what the goal is. Also, we don't currently use all those widgets in contacts...
Comment 3 Philip Withnall 2014-04-01 17:50:16 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Can you give a bit of background for this? It isn't clear to me what the goal
> is. Also, we don't currently use all those widgets in contacts...

I suspect this was filed as a result of the Contact management hackfest in Cambridge a few years ago. The idea was to create a re-usable library of contact management widgets, so that applications don’t have to keep re-inventing them. It’s an idea which has been floated (and implemented) many times before.

I’m now of the opinion that other applications would be better off lib-ifying widgets from gnome-contacts as and when they need them, rather than introducing an extra up-front development and maintenance cost by splitting the widgets out ahead of time.

So, unless you object, I’ll close this as WONTFIX. :-)