Re: [Evolution-hackers] custom labels
On Sun, 2014-05-25 at 21:41 +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote: > Instead if just the pre-defined "Work", "Home", "Other", etc., the user > can also enter arbitrary text. For example, instead of "Other Tel: foo" > the user can enter "Vacation Tel: bar" for a telephone number that is to > be used when that contact is in his vacation home. > > It's even more important for dates. There might be a lot more dates to > be stored than just birthday and anniversary, so a repeating X-ABDate > property is used with custom labels to allow that. Same for related > persons. Hi, aha, I see, so it's more like TYPE parameter, with more fine-grained values. Would it be too complicated to use TYPE instead? It'll be slightly complicated for evolution's UI, but probably easier than dealing with it in a separate widget. Bye, Milan ___ evolution-hackers mailing list evolution-hackers@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] custom labels
On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 15:58 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 14:56 +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote: > > I went ahead with the X-ABLabel as parameter approach. > > Hi, > I'm sorry you didn't get any answer for this thread. I always forgot of > it, also due to not having much opinion on the subject. > > I still do not fully understand what are the custom labels for. Is it a > per-attribute property or a per-contact property? It feels like > categories, if the later. What are the labels used for in UI? Instead if just the pre-defined "Work", "Home", "Other", etc., the user can also enter arbitrary text. For example, instead of "Other Tel: foo" the user can enter "Vacation Tel: bar" for a telephone number that is to be used when that contact is in his vacation home. It's even more important for dates. There might be a lot more dates to be stored than just birthday and anniversary, so a repeating X-ABDate property is used with custom labels to allow that. Same for related persons. Bye, Patrick ___ evolution-hackers mailing list evolution-hackers@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
