Re: [Evolution] Regenerating addressbook.db

[Jeff <web kiddo free fr>]

> What you are looking at is *preview*
> mode; it seems unreasonable to see *all* the contact information in
> *preview* mode.

Users shouldn't be expected to double-click contacts and crawl through
four notebook tabs mostly filled with blank fields to actually get the
relevant (non-blank) information shown before their eyes. That is
unreasonable, IMHO.

As far as I understand, the preview window's reason of existence is
especially so that you don't have to open that huge dialog to see the
information you're looking for in a contact.

Even more so since 1) the preview pane is scrollable 2) many users have
high resolution screens now. In 1920x1200, not showing all the relevant
information on a vertical preview pane â that could fit 3-6 times more
info than there currently is â is a big waste of blank space.



> I assume this means Contacts (the Pimlico app [1]) is still reading
> data from ~/.evolution, which is understandable since we only recently
> added functions to libedataserver [2] to obscure the location of
> Evolution's data and cache directories as part of the move to XDG base
> directories. Contacts probably has the old directories hard-coded.

What Matthew Barnes said. Basically, Contacts hasn't migrated to the
newer e-d-s, and I'm a bit uneasy with the fact that it is pretty much
unmaintained (or almost). If possible, I'd prefer to use Evolution for
future-proofness.

...But expecting my parents to double-click a contact every time "just
in case that there MIGHT be some information that is not actually shown
in the preview pane" makes me even more nervous.
One thing I know is that average users don't *look* for hidden stuff.
Hell, even *I* wouldn't think the data is there if it's not actually
shown :)

Should I file a bug about this?