Interviewed by CNN on 26/09/2012 17:09, Philip TAYLOR told the world: > Do you know what he happens to believe is wrong with the present one ? > I accept that developers are perfectly entitled to work on whatever > takes their fancy, but all the while there are real bugs in the > product set I would personally prefer it if more effort could be > diverted to bug fixing and less to cosmetics.
I'm not watching closely this development, but a few months back I saw a list of requirements for the address book replacement. Basically, the most common complaint is its rigid format -- only two e-mail addresses, no fields for instant messenger, just one phone number for each of five predefined categories and such. This is woefully underpowered compared to, say, Outlook or Gmail. I gather that the goal is to have something as flexible as the Gmail address book. Also, the same engine would power the Boot2Gecko/FirefoxOS contacts app, so it would to be at least as good as the Android contacts system. A big benefit would be to enable sync between Thunderbird/Seamonkey/B2G and other, currently more powerful, contacts providers. As it is, I don't even try finding a sync solution, because I'm painfully aware that dataloss is almost guaranteed -- for instance, I have contacts in Gmail/Android with four e-mail addresses, six telephones, two home addresses, three business addresses and such. None of those fits in the Seamonkey address book. So, instead of having an unified address book, I'm forced to keep the Seamonkey address book as a separate (and almost-unmaintained) thing, just for convenience when writing e-mails. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Daystrom M5 Multitronic System. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.12.1 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
