Re: how to delete local address books + issues with online accounts

[Federico Bruni <fedelogy gmail com>]

Wait, I have an important question.
I've noticed that if I launch gnome-contacts from terminal I can't see 
any contact. It works only if I use the usual launcher.
Why?


Il 08/12/2012 16:12, Federico Bruni ha scritto:
> After rebooting the local address books are vanished, as I wished, and
> Google contacts are now visible.
> Probably restarting the Gnome session would have been enough.
>
> Sorry for the noise
>
> Il 08/12/2012 13:25, Federico Bruni ha scritto:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm giving a try to gnome-contacts. It seems really nice but I've had
> > several problems so far and couldn't test it.
> > I have a couple of questions, I hope you can help me.
> >
> > I'm on Debian testing.
> > gnome-contacts 3.4.1-1+b1
> >
> >
> > 1) How to delete local address books?
> > In my first try I used Evolution contacts, but as Evolution seems buggy
> > and can't edit any contact or import .vcf file I decided to purge it
> > away from my computer (I use Thunderbird as email client).
> >
> > Nevertheless, Gnome Contacts still see the address books I had created
> > inside Evolution. I wonder where they come from. I'm sure I've removed
> > any personal data of Evolution:
> >
> > $ find . -name 'evolution'
> > ./.gnome2/accels/evolution
> >
> > IIUC, Gnome Contacts can't delete local address books, because they are
> > created by other applications (such as Evolution).
> >
> > If I launch it from terminal I get the following output:
> >
> > $ gnome-contacts
> >
> > (gnome-contacts:29529): libebook-WARNING **: e_book_client_new: Cannot
> > get book from factory: Invalid source
> >
> > (gnome-contacts:29529): folks-WARNING **: Error preparing persona store
> > 'eds:1275848269.4125.1@fede-desktop': Couldn't open address book
> > ?1275848269.4125.1@fede-desktop?: Invalid source
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 2) Online accounts
> > I've added my Google account in the Online Account configuration of
> > Gnome. Google address book is appeared in Gnome Contacts but if I switch
> > to it no contact is displayed.
> >
> > Last question: can gnome-contacts connect to some vcard personal server?
> > Or should I wait for gnome-online-account to support OwnCloud?
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660573
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance


--
Federico