[Evolution] Selecting contacts from addressbook [Was: unsubscribe]

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam opengroupware us>]

On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:34 +0200, Krzysztof BÅaszkowski wrote:
> I know another joke like this and it goes as follow:

How about (a) not replying to a thread and changing the subject or (b)
at least changing the subject.

> evolution user wants to write new mail to a recipient from address book.
> the recipient has a few addresses (e.g. company) let's say he has 3. btw
> it is not possible to assign more than 4, why ?
> okay, user uses "contacts", selects right recipient and points some
> address in the middle of the list displayed in bottom right window (that
> one with contact's personal information).

I'm following this up to "points some address in the middle of the list
displayed in bottom right window"

I have no clue what that means.

> user writes mail, sends it and oops, he notices that the mail was sent
> to 1st address from the list of all defined mail addresses.
> then he opens contacts again and does a few tests which make him sure
> that no matter which address he pointed the mail composer would use
> always the 1st address from the list.

I just checked.  I can click "To" in compose, select the contact from
the address book, and pick any address.  It works.,  If you mean
right-click on the contact in address book and click "send-message-to",
then yep, you're right.  And I don't see how you'd expect it to do
anything else.

> Was it funny ? 
> I think it is far more than winder dll story 

The "winder dll story"... what?

> because it is regarding
> qualifications of evolution developers. (some readers must be told this
> directly)
> I found also a rule how these addresses are sorted and it is not
> alphabetical neither doesn't depend on position of email field from
> "open" form (that one for editing contact's properties). cool. it
> depends on something else. i will not tell.

It depends upon the slot value;  assuming I understand what you are
talking about.

> But more seriously. I reckon that such errors are not supposed to happen
> in a project which lasts for years. (i would make more allowances if the
> project started 3 months ago). Such errors show only poor code quality
> (people quality) and lack of QA or poor QA quality. (such people should
> be fired out).

I'm certain your evaluation will cause devastating damage to the
developer's self-esteem.

> another my conclusion is that if Novell wants to sell SLEDx with such
> applications then i can say to Novell sales (and i bet not only me),
> sorry folks i will not spend a penny on such crap. (i hope if a few
> "coding" kids were fired then maybe others would do theirs job more
> carefully)

I'm glad your not my manager - all your projects will certainly fail.

> you may don't like words like "crap" or "rubbish" but have you ever
> thought if it changes something ?

Actually I think they are great works. "Rubbish", especially when
pronounced with a cockney accents is fabulous.

> that's it. now i think about unsubscribing because it's a waste of time
> receiving more post. 

Just follow the link at the bottom of every message

> one more. openSuse doesn't have gtksudo (why ?) i had to use kdesudo
> otherwise i wouldn't even bother with Gnome. Ksnapshot is also far more
> convenient.

awilliam linux-yu4c:~> rpm -q libgnomesu
libgnomesu-1.0.0-314.5.x86_64

which provides "gnomesu".  Works perfectly.

> Krdc too, will not mention Kdiff3.
> i consider also moving back to Kmail (under Gnome of course)

Awesome.  Have fun.
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