Hi, Travis Reitter wrote: > In general, I think there are a few scales of contact sources we should > consider (from smallest to largest / most- to least-frequent > communication): > > * favorites > * local address book, IM contacts, web services (including Facebook) > * remote directory (eg, LDAP)
Having used Android for a few years, I really like having two types of favourites: starred favourites that you always want to see there, but who you don't necessarily call very often (sorry Mom!) and "frequently contacted" - people who you contact often. I would be really happy to have something like Thunderbird's auto-completion heuristic for all applications where you use contacts - contacts matching what you type are presented in a "most frequently contacted" sort order - and while I have no evidence to think so, it seems like more recent contact gets weighed more heavily too. > Most UIs sort favorites at the top of aggregated local addressbook > and/or IM contacts and leave out directory contacts entirely or require > switching views to see them (as in Evolution). Android has a separate "favourites" view, as well as the "search as you type" feature in the global view. And also application context specific presentation of contacts (only contacts with a phone number get shown in the phone app, only those with an email address in the email app, etc). > I'd prefer an address book to show the aggregate of {local address book, > IM contacts, web service contacts} in browse mode and only reveal > LDAP/huge directory contacts when searching. The nice thing about that > is the user can search for someone and select them as soon as they show > up, simply waiting for the throbber to stop if the person they had in > mind hasn't shown up yet (as the remote search(es) progress). I like this idea too. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list