Re: [Evolution] Question about contact display list

[Alessio Bragadini <alessio sevenseas org>]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:48, Inigo Martinez Lasala wrote:

> > > "Lasala, Iñigo", but should be displayed has "Martinez, Iñigo" since
> > Yes, edit the 'Full Name' components, remove Martinez from middle (since
> > it's not) and put Martinez Lasala as last. If you just use the basic box
> > instead, Evo will try to split on white space (first, middle, last).
>
> But this involves to edit all my LDAP server entries, and this is not
> possible since it would affect our other applications that not use the
> "first, middle, last" format.
>
> > > The question... ¿is there any way to modify this behavior so Evolution
> > This is not correct. You name no middle name (actually, you could, not
> > in this case) but a last name made of two words.
>
> OK, perhaps the question should be, ¿is there any way to change the
> display format to show "middle name", "name" instead of
> "surname","name".
> I have seen plenty of XML files in evolution directories for
> displaying purposes, so it would be possible to change some of them.

You didn't understand my answer, or you posed a different question: are
you entering a contact (local or LDAP) or are you reading all of them
from your LDAP server?

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