Re: Changes to Contacts

[Erick Pérez <erick red gmail com>]

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.

We're showing those by default today.

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.)

Why won't you want a G+ people you follow on your contacts ? I'm interesting if people would feel G+ people apart from Google Contacts. I feel like they are the same thing.

> 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.

Indeed, you have a point there. So, remove the presence info from the UI along and using it under the hood to point the user in the right direction about getting in touch when someone.

> 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?

Indeed, something like that, I've been told by the eds developers, that if you can get an ESourceRegistry instance, you will have at least a system-addressbook for sure. So yeah, if I can't get an instance of ESourceRegistry I'll show an error and go out.

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