> On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 15:32 -0800, Brewster Gillett wrote: > > Does anyone have any ideas? > > > > (1) in my Contacts editing screens, the Contacts are all listed > > > by their "sort by" fields (generally last name first, the default) > > > but when I am composing an email, smack "TO:", and get the > > > Contacts List popup, over there it lists them by the primary > > > name in the Contact record (generally first name first).
Reid Thompson wrote: > I see the same from head approx 2 weeks ago (will rebuild from head > today). I've never found it to be an issue though. I tend to use the > search box and/or autocomplete to find addresses that I need. I find autocomplete, in any program, to be less than optimal, so to me it's easier to hit the "TO:" and scroll down. I thought the search function available in compose mode only searched the body of the message? Are you saying it can be set to search the Address Book? Brewster wrote earlier: > > > (2) There are contacts that appear in the latter list but do not > > > show up in the former one. Which means they cannot be edited. Reid Thompson wrote: > I don't know whether this issue exists for me or not. I've not noticed > it, but that's not to say that it doesn't exist for me. Are the > contacts being merged from a different 'list'? > > reid Absolutely not - they all came into 2.28.1 as a bunch from my earlier version of Evo. I am really finding all of this very puzzling, which is highly uncomfortable; I'm not generally this puzzled over something which should be fairly simple :-) Brewster 2.28.1 under Ubuntu 9.10 -- *********************************************************************** 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
