On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 10:29 -0200, Sylvia Sánchez wrote: > > I don't understand your way to explain, that's why I didn't answer > your questions.
bg: Fair enough. I'll try to explain a different way. There is a master record for each Contact in the Address Book. Within that record are several individual fields, two of which deal with the name of the Contact. The first one is called "Full Name", and carries the actual name of the contact. The second name field is called "File Under", and defaults to last name first. This second field constitutes the user's instructions as to how they wish their Address Book to be sorted. There are also two places in Evolution where the list of Contacts can be seen. The first one is in the main Contacts database, or Address Book, which is where Contacts are selected to be edited. The second place the Address Book can be displayed is when you are in "EDIT" (email composing) mode, and you click on the "TO:" field, whereupon a listing of your Address Book pops up in a small window. The primary difficulty I am experiencing is that Evo is sorting two different ways, depending upon where the Address Book is viewed. When I am in the main Contacts (Contact adding and editing) area, the Contact entries are sorted as they have been requested to be sorted - last name first. But when I access the second instance, the pop-up that responds to the "TO:" in the "EDIT" (email composing) mode, that window is ignoring the instruction, and displaying the Contacts sorted on "Full Name", rather than on the "File Under" field. The reason I am finding the lack of responses to this query so puzzling is very simple: it seems that either nobody else has experienced this, or that they have, and have ignored it. Does it not seem quite unlikely that, if this is a bug in 2.28.1, nobody else would have noticed it? Is it possible that people would actually put up with having their Contacts incorrectly sorted every time they need to retrieve one when composing an email? Then as a related part of this, there are Contacts which appear in the latter list but never show up in the main Contacts editing list. That is also unacceptable; if for no other reason than those Contacts which do not show on the main Contacts editing screen are therefore no available for editing. I really have to believe these conditions are both bugs, but I have invested a lot of time in searching forum posts and bug lists, and have yet to find either one. On the other hand , if they *are* bugs, why is it that nobody else has noticed them? I don't like mysteries. If I want mystery, I'll read Agatha Christie. I don't need it in my email programs :-) Brewster -- *********************************************************************** Embrace a sharing community of sustainable justice low-carbon diversity *********************************************************************** W. Brewster Gillett [email protected] Portland, OR USA *********************************************************************** Simply because you don't like to hear it, that doesn't make it untrue. *********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
