Hi, Adding a couple of more thoughts,
When displaying the list of people, there should potentially be some groupings by origin (Facebook, AIM, local network, etc.) or a logo by each one showing origin or a filter-by-origin drop-down or something of that nature. We don't have to make all "people" look homogeneous, to me it is and should be user-visible that this is a merging of people from different sites and apps that I use. To go with that, for the most part _editing_ of people would happen on the specific sites; e.g. if I want to change my Facebook friends list I go to Facebook to do it. I would envision Evolution's address book merged in with an origin like "Address Book" or "Evolution" or whatever. If I don't use Evolution I wouldn't see any contacts from that source. All of the above is probably clearer if we have specific, concrete UI features in mind. I'm basically thinking of the BigBoard people list here. In an IM client, you'd want something different - you'd want only contacts that were associated with some type of IM the client understands. In an email client, you'd want only contacts with an email address and might not want local network people. I don't know exactly. We should evolve this iteratively / as-needed as we integrate the list of people into apps. Another distinction I'd like to throw out there is between a multi-protocol IM client and multiple IM clients. I would see our job here as merging IM status from the IM clients someone is using. That could be Pidgin, xchat-gnome, Gossip, etc. in addition to Telepathy. If users switch to Telepathy and the other clients become unpopular, then our job gets a lot easier, of course. ;-) But conceptually, merging info from multiple clients is different from replacing multiple clients with a single client, if that makes sense. Havoc _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
