Re: Gimmie, vcards, Gnome and people

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

Thanks. I'd much rather see this in my blog comments. I plan to refer
back later to that blog entry and similar ones from other people.

Personally, I guess that this can be achieved best by finishing
gossip-telepathy. gimmie does not seem interested in telepathy and
confuses the issue by combining extra features.

http://www.murrayc.com/blog/permalink/2007/03/21/my-gnome-of-the-future-people/

On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 11:35 +0200, David Prieto wrote:
> Hi Murray,
> 
> This is the guy from the Ephy / FF thread. Your message reminded me that
> some time ago I read an entry of yours in Gnome-planet, about gnome and
> people. I pointed you to Gimmie, don't know if you remember.
> 
> Well, it left me thinking and I filed this bug against gimmie:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421811
> 
> Basically, gimmie is not very useful now when it comes to contact people
> because it just acts as a frontend for Gaim. My idea is to have it
> handle vcards, which store all the information about a contact: personal
> picture, IM direction, e-mail address, even contact phone and physical
> address.
> 
> Having gimmie show you your vcards and link it to Telepathy,
> Evolution... maybe even Skype or some other alternative, would pretty
> much do what you suggested, wouldn't it? And it wouldn't be all that
> hard. You could even handle your contacts like a common file, copy them
> to folders and send them to other people.
> 
> My technical knowledge is very limited, so I would love to hear your
> opinion about the issue and clarify any doubts you might have, if you're
> interested.
> 
> I'm attaching a screenshot of how the "contacts" panel of gimmie works,
> in case you haven't actually seen it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David.
> 
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