Re: Nautilus Sendto -- opportunities for generalisation

[Edd Dumbill <edd usefulinc com>]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 23:31 +0200, Maciej Katafiasz wrote:
> Gah, wrong Reply button. Re-sending with correct Cc: this time.
> 
> Dnia 23-08-2004, pon o godzinie 18:28 +0100, Edd Dumbill napisał(a):
> > (1) can we have a widget for contact completion like this?  Ross
> > Burton's contact lookup applet does more or less the same thing you do.
> > Furthermore in gnome-phone-manager I want to do a similar thing to be
> > able to get mobile phone numbers to send messages to.  It would rock if
> > there was a contact chooser widget that allowed either single or
> > multiple selections of contacts to be made, and allowed specification of
> > which fields we are interested in (email addr, cellphone number, AIM
> > handle.)
> 
> Assuming I'm not on crack, I seem to remember Chris Hammond doing that
> and more in his galago-widgets. I very much support Galago's idea of
> unified contact / presence framework, so let's not create another ad-hoc
> glue widget, and instead move to proper solution Galago is :)

That sounds great.  I'm all for using that.  Will Galago be following
the desktop release cycle any time soon?

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