GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 783909
Deprecate phone types and protocols from the eighties
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:46:06 UTC
Everytime I want to edit the phone "type" in a contact I waste time going through what seems like a huge list of dead technologies and usecases. Currently, the list includes: Assistant phone, business phone, business fax, callback phone, car phone (!), company phone, home phone, home fax (!), ISDN (!), mobile phone, other phone, other fax (!), pager, primary phone (!), radio, telex (!!!), TTY (!!!). It's fantastic… if you live in the 80's ;D I laughed at the "car phone" in particular, because this is exactly like https://youtu.be/bS5P_LAqiVg?t=946 Today we need only 4-5 things there, at most: - Mobile phone - Office phone - Home phone - Fax (arguably this might disappear by 2030) - Other
Thanks for a bug report. It follows vCard 3.0 [1], except of the Telex and TTY, I do not know where these two come from. It's true, vCard 4.0 has less types predefined [2], but evolution-data-server still uses version 3.0. What about reordering the list, rather than removing anything from it? They are sorted alphabetically right now, if I read it properly. [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2426.html#page-32 [2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6350#section-6.4.1
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