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

[Hans Petter Jansson <hpj ximian com>]

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 11:52 -0700, Chris Toshok wrote:
> 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 :)

Yeah, it may be an argument for removing it entirely. I think that's
unrealistic right now, though. We can think some more about this. It'd
affect the calendar too, which has a similar feature.

Input from users apart from the two of us would be useful, too.

-- 
Hans Petter