On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:17:14 +0200, Jens Hatlak wrote: > Philip TAYLOR wrote: >> MCBastos wrote: >>> Mike Conley has been working in a new address book for Thunderbird >>> (...) >> >> 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. > > It's not just about cosmetics. It's also about replacing the existing > back-end, including the ancient storage format (Mork) by something more > flexible (probably SQLite, like used for Places-powered bookmarks and > history). This will then make it possible to add address book support to > Sync, among other things.
Also the current design means that it is impossible to correctly sync with Google contacts (or any other Contact book e.g. the OSX system address book) without losing data (and/or creating duplicates) going in either direction. Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
