Re: gmail plugin: display all contact data -- integrate patch?

["Adi J. Sieker" <adi sieker info>]

Hi Stefan,

On 14/01/11 17:16, Stefan Otte wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I'm wondering if there are plans to merge adsworth changes into
> kupfer. He extended the gmail plugin to display all contact data. See
> also:
> https://github.com/adsworth/kupfer/commit/a07510a872efd80a27f26d959b4c96f12a89160e
>
> This seems to me really useful. Quicksilver had such an feature (of
> course using address book). Also QS allowed to show maps for a
> contact. A very handy feature as well which should be easy to
> integrate as well.
>
> What do you think?

I guess this sort of died around September last year.
I mailed the list about my update to the plugin [1].
Ulrik had some concerns about the coding in general which I cleaned up.
He also had some concern about me not using the contacts grouping 
anymore since apparently I'm using the EmailContact incorrectly. The 
grouping is implemented by using something called slots, I can find 
references to that in the Kupfer code, but I have no idea what the 
grouping actually does in respect to the user experience. I posted a 
follow up asking for more information on the slots since I can't find 
any documentation on them anywhere.
My mail mail must have gotten lost in a busy schedule. Then I got 
swamped with work and didn't follow it up anymore either.
So the code is there I'm using it on a daily basis and it's working 
fine, but I'm still not sure as what the now missing contact grouping 
actually did.

To resume I'm still using the EmailContact for all the Email addresses. 
I'm just not populating them with the name and the email address. I'm 
populating them with the label such as work, home, etc. pp. and the 
email adress.

I'm still busy atm but I'd be glad to do some work on the plugin to get 
it checked in when I get time.

Regards
   Adi (adsworth)