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

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On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 15:20 -0800, 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".
> 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.)

Watch the nomenclature, we should definetly use "vFolders".  Outlook has this new featuer called "Saved searches" ...

> 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.)
Definetly, local == onthiscomputer, only less typing.

> Chris
>
> On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 17:08, Chris Toshok wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 15:14, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 19:46, Chris Toshok wrote:
> > > > So I was looking through the code after reading ross's default
> > > > addressbook patch.  Didn't we decide that having multiple local
> > > > addressbooks wasn't necessary?  I mean, you can separate contacts by
> > > > using categories.
> > > > 
> > > > And if we ever get around to writing the code to save searches (and
> > > > display them as subfolders in the source list), we can provide 2 default
> > > > ones (anything with Business in the category list for "Work", and
> > > > anything without Business as "Personal.")
> > > 
> > > We in fact talked about getting rid of the concept of "default"
> > > addressbooks/calendars all together.  Preferring to have each
> > > application that used the default to configure itself more
> > > appropriately.
> > 
> > Oh I didn't mean default as in e_book_get_default_addressbook.  I meant
> > we'd create those folders/searches when first populating the .evolution
> > directory.  Kinda like the initial set of VFolders the mailer creates.
> > 
> > Chris
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