Re: Changes to Contacts

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> Hi:
>
> I'm thinking in the path the application will take the next cycle, here's
> some stuff I plan to change.
>
> 1. Remove the distinction splitting Google Contacts. Previously, we
> differentiate between contacts Google had in it's "My Contacts" group and
> all the others. I'm planning of get rid of that distinction, and one the
> reasons if that Contacts have a pretty great search today and there's no
> need of hiding those contacts

Really? Those contacts are not typically shown either in the web UI or on 
android phones. They are full of autogenerated junk from any email address
you ever sent a mail to. Most of them only have an email address, not even
a name. 

There are also all the people you follow on G+, which you don't necessarily
 want to have in your contacts. (We're kinda lame at separating out these
atm, maybe we can do that better.)

> 2. Remove any presence indication from contacts, I don't think that's the
> purpose of it.

I don't mind, but it may be useful when looking up someone to decide what way
to contact them.

> 3. Make Contacts running if and only if eds is properly running in a session.
> After all Contacts is highly integrated into GNOME, so doesn't make sense to
> provide a Contacts experience if there's no a proper GNOME session, meaning
> a proper eds instance running available for connection.

I'm not sure what you mean by this, would it just show a dialog and exit on
startup if no eds is availible?