Re: [Evolution-hackers] 2 separate addressbooks? why?

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 18:20, Chris Toshok wrote:
> Sorry to revive this thread... but as people are going to start using
> 1.5, it might be good to get this settled.
> 
> What I'm suggesting:
> 
> 1. We drop the 2 separate local address books and move to 1.  Call it
> "Contacts".

"Personal" is fine too - Tuomas should probably dictate something that
is consistent for both calendar and addressbook, but two default local
addressbooks is silly.

> 2. Sometime post 2.0 we add the ability to save searches and have them
> reflected in the source list.  We can at that point add "Personal" and
> "Work" back in, as saved searches (those contacts without "Business" as
> a category and those contacts with "Business" as a category,
> respectively.)

We'll probably need to come up with a clear distinction of would should
and should go into ESource's - anything gui related for instance should
probably not be kept there.  Queries are *probably* ok.

> 3. We drop "OnThisComputer" from the path of the local contact folder. 
> Having "local" in the path should be enough (and is for the other
> components.)

Calendar and Tasks hava "OnThisComputer" in their path.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>
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