On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 03:11:15PM -0700, Ryo Chijiiwa wrote: > I just skimmed through the thread, so I'm not sure what concensus was > reached (if any), but here're my thoughts: > > I'm not convinced enforcing a unique name field has a net-positive > effect on usability. I like fields to be free-form as much as possible, > so that users have the maximum freedom to use the feature as they like > it. The way it is now, if a user wants multiple entries for "John > Smith" because he knows 3 John Smiths, he can do so. If the user finds > that confusing, he also has the option of entering disambiguating labels > like "John Smith (coworker)", "John Smith (dude at the bar)", etc.
I for one would vote for keeping this free-form, always irked me that most all email clients/address books require this to be a unique field. On a related note I wish the the IM contacts part was more free-form too. As it is (and is with most all other programs) it takes work to add support for a new IM-protocol and people can't have more than one ID for any one protocol (I have multiple jabber accounts for example). I think it would be better if it was arrange in the DB like: im1_type text, im1_id text, im2_type text, im2_id text, im3_type text, im3_id text, Three would probably be enough. This way one could select the IM type from say a drop-down list and it would be easy to add another IM type just by adding it to the drop-down. -- Harvey > > Also, a contacts search would be cool, but one of the things I was > planning on working on next was an Ajax auto-complete feature in the > message compose window. > > Ryo > > On 1/3/2006, "Martin Waschb???sch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Ryan, > > > >Am 3.1.2006 schrieb "Ryan R. LaMothe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> > >>Martin, > >> > >>I believe we are thinking along the same lines. I apologize if my email > >>was unclear. > >> > >> > >>-Ryan > > > >Nothing to worry about, Ryan. Usually, I am the complicated one. But as > >long as we mean the same thing, everything is just perfect! > > > >Thanks, > > > >Martin > > > >-- > >"What a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason > >away..." > > > >Doobie Brothers (1978) > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > >for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > >searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click > >_______________________________________________ > >Ilohamail-devel mailing list > >Ilohamail-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ilohamail-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Ilohamail-devel mailing list > Ilohamail-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ilohamail-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Ilohamail-devel mailing list Ilohamail-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ilohamail-devel
