On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 07:50 -0700, Brewster Gillett wrote: > Using Evo 2.28.3 and Ubuntu 10.04. > I am beginning to wonder if any of our senior experts on this list have > ever used Evolution's Contacts module. Perhaps address books went out of > fashion when I wasn't looking, and Autocomplete is the flavor of the > month now. There are some inexplicable things going on in the Contacts > section, and have been for a long time, but we rarely see it mentioned.
No, I use it. It certainly seems to have gone out-of-fashion for some [I've noticed that too], but I have no idea what they are using in its place. > At present I have 70 Contacts filed. All but three are individuals. > Problems with the three that are "lists" were introduced in an earlier > email message, and have not yet been resolved. Another topic :-) Yes, representing anything other that contacts is problematic. This isn't entirely Evolution's fault; the vCard spec provides no way to represent anything other than a Contact. > When I initiate a "NEW" email message, and follow the instructions > in the Evo Help, as reproduced here, > "Alternately, you can click the To:, Cc:, or Bcc: buttons to get a list > of the email addresses in your contacts. Select addresses and click the > arrows to move them into the appropriate address columns." Yep. > then I get the popup window listing my Contacts. Unfortunately, it has > *two* significant discrepancies. First, it only lists 60 of my > 70 contacts. I have examined each one of the contacts that are being > omitted, and the few checked or populated boxes in them do not differ > in any discernible fashion from any of the ones that *are* being listed. > "Personal" is the only mailbox choice in use on any of them. > "Any" is the chosen category for all. > Three elements are the maximum (and minimum) number used in all 70 > Contacts: > Full Name > File under > email address > So the only conclusion I can reach is that the popup maybe is limited > to 60 entries - can that possibly be true? Could be. I'd say that the default behavior is broken anyway - listing ANY contacts by default is incorrect. Can you search for your contacts? [What if you have thousands of contacts, do you expect them all to be listed? Either (a) the program will try and probably crash or hang or (b) only a subset will be listed and the user will be confused. Conclusion: list none] > The other problem, and I have posted it here at least twice with no > responses, is that the system appears to be completely ignoring, > in all cases, the sorting according to the "File under" field > in the Contact entries. What it is sorting by is the *first name* > of the Contact. Let me make this one very clear; when I actually > move into the Contacts module, as in to do editing of Contacts, > all the Contacts appear sorted by the "File under" field, as they > are expected to be. It is only in the "SELECT CONTACTS" popup > that appears when you are composing a new message and smack the > "To:" field that they are being incorrectly sorted on first name > from the "Full Name" field. Hmm. I've give that a try. > BTW though I shouldn't have to, I will add that every single one of the > entries in my Contacts *does* have the "File under" field populated. Can you even save a contact without that field filled in? > What really mystifies me is the apparent fact that I am the only user > who has noticed these two things, so far. > Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can look for > to fix these problems? It's always possible that they could be the > result of something I am doing, or failing to do, though I can't see > how. Or are they bugs? > Or should I just shut up, forget about the popup and its sorting and > omission issues, and rely completely on the Autocomplete feature? -- Adam Tauno Williams <[email protected]> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
