Re: Musings on the contacts user experience

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 16:20 +0200, daniel g. siegel wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 16:13 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 13:19 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
> > 
> > > In general, then, my current position is that, despite it not being the
> > > primary way in which people will access messaging, we do still need a
> > > dedicated contacts app. I am open to being convinced that an integrated
> > > IM/contacts app would work, but I would want to see the 3 issues I've
> > > identified above resolved.
> > 
> 
> to me it seems that it is not a question of "what", but more like
> "where". to me personally it doesn't matter if i can access my contacts
> through evolution, a dedicated app or a gnome-shell panel. it is more
> important to access my contacts where ever i am, be it my laptop, my
> computer at home, my phone or an internet cafe.
> 
> an amazing thing would be to have them stored and synchronised (for
> example with couchdb) on my computer, my phone and on contacts.gnome.org
> as a web-app. as long as all the data stays accessible and synchronised
> from all places the ui and user experience is more a question of what
> the device and input methods can allow me on that device.

Thats orthogonal to this discussion though. But yes, we need to solve these
issues too.