On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 11:12 +0000, Allan Day wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 16:28 +0000, Allan Day wrote: > > > >> Having thought about this topic over the Christmas break, I'm coming > >> to the view that we need a bit of a rethink of our approach to > >> linking. > > > > I like this approach a lot, and will start working on it. There are a > > couple of immediate minor issues I see though: > > > > https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/raw/master/contacts/png/inline-link-suggestions.png > > > > The folks suggestions API looks for possible matching personas, not > > individuals. We can easily skip any matches that contain a primary store > > persona (as they are not "Other"), but we can easily get another > > individual that has multiple non-primary personas. Displaying that > > inline in this way will be a bit tricky. > > > > Also, we don't currently have a good way to store the fact that you > > pressed "No, they are not the same", so I'm not quite sure how well > > automatically showing such matches will be. So, at least initially I > > don't think we'll be able to do this without manual initiation. > > It's not essential, so it can wait. It would be good to have though. > Maybe the missing functionality is something the Folks crew would be > happy to have? We've been wanting it for a while: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629537 It continues to be somewhere near the top of my TODO list, for all the good that does. Philip > > https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/raw/master/contacts/png/search-results.png > > > > I guess this displays the contacts store label+icon in the sidebar. What > > about IM personas in Other, do we not show the presence status for them? > > When I drew this my thought was that IM presence for other contacts > wouldn't be interesting. Now that you ask this I'm not sure. :) Let's > go with the IM status as usual - I'll update the mockups. > > > https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/raw/master/contacts/png/search-results-with-suggestion.png > > > > The hint question here breaks if you have multiple contacts that have > > the same name, since we're not showing any additional information. Not > > sure how important this it though. (We could possibly try to notice such > > cases and add some extra info like the email address to the name). > > You're right. Maybe we could have the profile picture in there too. > I'll look into it. > > > https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/raw/master/contacts/png/link-to-other-contact.png > > > > I see you added IM type icons here. Unfortunately those were removed > > from gnome-icon-theme by the design team. :) > > The icons are for the account, so we should be able to get them from > GOA. But yeah, maybe we need the ones for IM accounts too. Damn those > designers! :) > > Allan > -- > IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org > Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ > _______________________________________________ > gnome-contacts-list mailing list > gnome-contacts-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-contacts-list
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