Re: [Evolution] LDAP server update with Evolution

[Joaquim Fellmann <mljf altern org>]

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 03:06, Chris Toshok wrote:
> Ahhh, ok.  Now I understand your problem.  I just spent a while digging
> around the contact editor and the ldap backend, and have discovered that
> this one is going to be a really tough bug to fix given the way ECard
> parses the name on its own and figures out what the surname is - there's
> no easy, non-disgusting way (that I can think of at the moment) for the
> ldap backend to deal with this..  We could just set the name->family to
> NULL then reparse from "full_name", but that'll break users that use the
> full name dialog to enter names that would parse differently if
> evolution did it.
>
> Simple workaround in the meantime - put your cursor in the full name
> field and insert then delete a space :)  just something to change the
> field so evo will reparse it.


Here we go:
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=36437

Thanks for your help.

BTW: there's an horrible bug around there. I hit it 4 or 5 times while
playing with adding/editing/removing LDAP entry with evolution.
Unfortunately I can't trace it as I don't have debuging symbols enabled
:-(

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Joaquim Fellmann <mljf altern org>