On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 01:52 +0100, frederik nnaji wrote: > i love this thread! > Do you have access to Evolution Contacts also? > Or perhaps Thunderbird? > Evolution used to have a plugin that could exchange contacts with > Pidgin! > Gnome Do already merged Pidgin contacts with Evolution contacts, it's > just that its interface was so reductionist that it was kinda > undiscoverable.. > It would be nice to aggregate information artefacts on individuals > from everywhere relevant, i.e. also from Gwibber. > To avoid duplication of effort, i suggest coding the contact > information retrieval modules independently from the social apps, i.e. > from empathy / gwibber / emailapp.. those should rather be consumers > of that information.
Agreed completely. At Ubuntu One we're working on precisely the idea of handling merging of contacts, pulling in your contacts from Facebook and Google and so on. So I suggest that the People place shouldn't worry about fetching all the contacts from everywhere; instead, just display whatever's in the Ubuntu One addressbook, and then as we add more contacts to that addressbook they'll all appear in Unity, and the People place itself doesn't have to worry about a million different contact sources; it can concentrate on displaying really useful information about those contacts rather than the contacts themselves. sil _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
