Re: Link dialog and Undo for linking

[Erick Pérez Castellanos <erick red gmail com>]

> This distinction between my contacts and other contacts is quite
> common. Gmail has the concept of 'My Contacts' Android has something
> called 'All Contacts' (which roughly conforms to what I have described
> as 'other contacts'). I think it is useful, in that it is close to how
> people tend to think about their contact data.

Here, I would like to make some points clear. What I got from this was:
Gnome Contacts (g-c) should help the user to manage two different groups
of contacts, main contacts and some others (those you night get from
social networks hub). As it happens Google Contacts call the former "My
Contacts", and Yahoo could name them "Preferred Contacts", or Android
"Favorites". the point is should be two groups cleanly separated one of
the other and accordingly with the backend we should sync them with the
category they fit best. If we can show the user cleanly enough which is
its main backend them the user will hope to see its main contacts there,
it will make the association between the contacts in its service of
choice and those if g-c .
Now the support for this tagging of personas as important (main,
primary) should come from libfolks, we might do it, but best would be to
came already from folks.
As of today, Folks::Individual has an attribute called is_favourite, and
there's a bug [1] to mark Android "Favorites" contacts as is_favorite.
So what I'm bringing here is:
First: we show only those contacts marked as favorite, the rest can be
reached as explained by Allan in [2]
Second: We should add a way to add/remove contacts from that main group.
This I discussed with Allan, I think he agrees.
Third: The data for this should be coming from the different backends of
folks, since it's the backend who knows how to match their "starred" (or
whatever category to our main contacts)


>  * When linking, the contact selector should operate in two modes -
> one for linking to my contacts [7] and one for linking to other
> contacts [8]. When linking to my contacts, only other contacts should
> be displayed in the dialog, and vice versa.

Here, I think there's just one thing left. When using the link dialog in
link-to-others-contacts mode we should allow to multi select contacts
since the user might link more than one Other contact to the one he's
editing. The other mode of the link dialog it is just one select

[1]https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661490
[2]https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/blob/master/contacts/png/search-results.png