Re: [Evolution] Contact Editor behavior oddity

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

I seem to recall seeing this request before but I'm not sure if there's
a bug about it in bugzilla.  Could you please file one?

Chris

On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 14:14, Sean Millichamp wrote:
> When I am editing a contact in Evolution 1.0.8 it doesn't seem to store
> my preferences for the phone numbers, address, or email selections.
>
> For example, I have a client that I work with for whom I have 3 business
> voice numbers and one fax number.  I don't (nor am I likely to) have his
> home or mobile numbers so I try to select "Business 2" and "Other" to
> replace the defaults of "Home" and "Mobile" which works but when I save
> it, close, and reload it the Home and Mobile fields are back and to see
> the other numbers I have to re-select them.
>
> It seems to me that the expected behavior is that it would display
> whichever ones you had selected last time you saved that contact. 
> Perhaps I think that is expected because that is what PalmOS does though
> :).  I searched for information on this topic but didn't come up with
> anything so far.
>
> Is this a bug?  a feature?  Even if I can't save it per-contact does
> anyone know how I could force the defaults to be different for all
> contacts?  I don't mind selecting it for the occasional odd contact at
> work so much but my wife is starting to use Evolution for her
> friends/family info (I finally convinced her to leave Windows behind)
> and would like to change all the business defaults to something more
> appropriate for personal/home use.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
>
>
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