Re: Getting contacts data in Maps

[Erick Pérez Castellanos <erick red gmail com>]

Hi:

Great. I also plan to show some maps inside Contacts.

> In Maps we have talked about how nice it would be if we could integrate
> contact data. For instance if we could route to a contact or search
> for a contact in the main search.
>
> Is it today possible to get the data from the backend in some way?
> What would need to be done in contacts to enable this?
>
> Do you have a preferred way this could happen?

I would prefer you could use folks plainly. Since, I;m planning on
make Contacts a simple/dumb frontend for folks.

Now, if you need to show the information related to a contact after
you have made something with it, I encourage you to use Contacts for
that. To make myself clear:

1. Use folks for retrieving data for the application internals
2. Launch a Contacts window to show contacts details to the user (ala Empathy)

As I said before, I want to show some Maps when an individual from
folks, and I have to study some Maps code to know how to get info from
there but pointers would be welcome. Thxs

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