Re: Link dialog and Undo for linking



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
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