Re: Add to My Contacts Button

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> On ons, 2013-01-23 at 15:55 -0500, Erick Pérez Castellanos wrote:
>> With the new mockups of the Contact-Pane which are already
>> implemented, I found no place for the [Add to My Contacts] button. So
>> we need a solution for that.
>>
>>
>> I can think of two right now.
>> 1. Show every contacts available, order so My Contacts go on top.
>> 2. Show every contacts available, order so My Contacts go on top, but
>> mark somehow the contacts belonging to [My Contatcs].
>>
>>
>> For obvious reasons I will like some variation of the latter. Although
>> will include some magic from our design wizards.
>
> The "standard" behaviour in other places like android seems to be to
> bunch everything together in alphabetical order, but then add icons for
> every "source". So, you'd have a google icon for the google contacts,
> and a facebook icon for a facebook contact, and a google + a facebook
> icon for a linked one.

There's some discussion about this in bug 676411 [1]. The conclusion
there was to show all contacts in the list whether they are "My
Contacts" or not. That's why there's no Add to My Contacts button in
the mockups. :)

It's still up for discussion of course, but that seems like a good way
forward to me. If we do go that route, my suggestion would be to list
all contacts in alaphabetical order, irrespective of where they are
stored.

Allan

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676411