On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 17:06 +0000, Philip Withnall wrote:
On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 17:42 +0100, Xavier Claessens wrote:it's just a matter of clicking "yes merge them" on all devices.Even if I’d written the code myself and was sure it was perfect, I (personally) could never trust it enough to click “yes link them” on all devices without checking things. I don’t think this is a feasible approach.
I would be very happy with a version that showed all the matches and had a pre-checked box for "Link?" next to all of them. I think it's relatively easy to get a huge portion of the matching done correctly. And we could hopefully highlight/warn about less-confident matches. Maybe use a scheme like: confidence < X%: don't show in list X% <= confidence < Y%: show in list, unchecked confidence >= Y%: show in list, checked with some simple way of communicating that idea. I'd probably start with X=75, Y=90 (since I think our proposed matches API is relatively good). This simple application could be called from any place that supports linking of some variety (though I suppose that means Gnome Contacts and not Empathy at this point). -Travis
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