Re: [evolution-patches] Addressbook contact editor simplification patch

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 20:15 +0200, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 10:35 -0700, Chris Toshok wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 19:27 +0200, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:
> 
> > > I think so. In the contact-editor, the book is presented as a property
> > > of the contact. If that property changes, the user doesn't expect the
> > > contact to be copied, same as the other properties.
> 
> > I dunno... This user found the behavior rather suprising the first
> > time :)
> 
> I guess we're thinking about it in different ways. To me, it's an
> association between a contact and a book - you're just changing the
> association. And if that results in two contacts, which one am I really
> editing? I'd be confused :)

Right, so the question is which way are users going to be thinking about
it?  Regardless of which way it acts, given that the 2 main addressbook
hackers would be suprised by one or the other behavior makes me think
it's not exactly the best UI :)

Chris