Re: Link dialog and Undo for linking

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 11:36 -0500, Erick Pérez Castellanos wrote:
> > 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.

"Favourites" isn't quite right. Right now folks combines a set of
sources into your "address book". Some are from the actual primary
addressbook that is under your control, be it a local evolution
addressbook or the google addressbook (accessed via eds). The rest are
from various more or less automatic contacts harvesters, taking data
from e.g. your buddy lists via IM or all your friends for facebook or
all your followed people on google plus. These later are clearly
interesting sometimes, but can be large and it can be confusing to see
them all combined in the UI.

In git master we now *only* show the contacts that contain a persona
from the primary persona store (and there is a way to switch which
addressbook to use). The other personas are only seen during search (and
its then separated out from the contacts under "your control"), and when
linked to primary personas.

> >  * 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

Multiple selection is kind of complicated, maybe we could instead
separate the actual linking of a contact from the closing of the dialog.
So, you bring up the dialog once, then you can select any contact and
click "link", then pick another and click link and then close the
dialog.