It is possible to combine address books, but unfortunately I have no
idea how to do it with Orca. What I have found to do is to display
all of the contacts for one address book (say Collected Addresses),
highlight those contacts, and then drag the highlighted contacts
into the address book with which you want to combine them (e.g.
Personal Address Book). I just checked to see if there are any menu
shortcuts that could be used to accomplish this same thing, but
there do not seem to be any. It looks like Drag and Drop is the only
way to do this.
I am not a programmer, but it seems to me that it would not be too
difficult to make a context menu item, maybe called Move To, which
would list all other available address books (excluding the one in
use) as a submenu. Then one, in theory, could just use keyboard
navigation to highlight whichever addresses he or she would want to
move to another address book, press ALT+F10 to right-click, and then
use this Move To menu item to have the contacts merged elsewhere.
If I knew how to do this, I would create an extension as it seems
like one does not currently exist (at least as of what I have found
by searching).
So...there is a way to do what you want to do, but it is only
accomplished by drag and drop, which makes it quite difficult for
screen reader users.
For anyone reading who has more experience with bug reporting than I
do, could this be considered an accessibility related bug as far as
Thunderbird's functionality is concerned? If it could be, I would
gladly file a report.
I am sorry that I cannot be of more help to you, Peter.
On 05/26/2012 05:54 AM, Peter Tesar wrote:
Hello list,
Thunderbird comes with two predefined address
books: Personal & Collected. These books are in the list
found when you go to the address book with ctrl+alt+b.
If you import, then another book is added to
the list.
The only import I have done is with my old Outlook Express
address in the .ldif format.
So now my address books list contains three
books.
When replying or manually adding an address
to one of your address books go to:
EDIT
| Preferences | Composition | Addressing
Tab to and check:
Automatically
add outgoing Email addresses to
Tab and highlight an address book: Personal,
imported, Collected
I believe that the TB default was Collected.
Now I have the Personal as my default.
So I now have addresses in three books.
My question is:
is there a way to combine all of them into
one book.
Peter
On 2012-05-25 10:23 PM, Dave Hunt wrote:
Which
likely explains why I never thought it was working. If sender
is added, with no feedback, you can go into address book and
fill the fields as you like. I'll try this for yours, see which
address book it ends up in.
Cheers,
Dave
On 05/25/2012 09:20 PM, Peter Tesar wrote:
Hello,
I did it. After tabbing to the
add to address book button
I used the numpad slash to left click on it. Nothing is said
but the
sender is added to the address book.
Peter
On 2012-05-24 9:36 PM, Dave Hunt wrote:
Can you get flat review to focus on
it? Maybe it's already under the
mouse pointer, in which case, can you click on it either
with review
keystroke or actual mouse/track pad? Not sure what's the
deal with
this button.
-Dave
On 05/24/2012 09:08 PM, Peter Tesar wrote:
Hello list, how do I activate the
'add to address book' button?
When I want to add a new address (without replying), I tab
a few times
and Orca announces:
add to address book button
Hitting the space bar or pressing ENTER does nothing. How
do I activate
this button?
Thanks,
Peter
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Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
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