Ping?

On Mi, 2011-01-05 at 14:43 +0000, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> On Mi, 2011-01-05 at 14:20 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 02:27:36PM +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > > In your case, what kind of sorting would you like and what happens
> > > instead?
> > > 
> > One of the main issues is simply that depending (I presume) on where the
> > data originated sometimes names are sorted by first name (as if the
> > whole name is one field) and sometimes they are sorted (as I expect) by
> > family name.
> > 
> > E.g. if I enter "Chris Green" into the name field of a new entry in
> > Evolution it automatically assumes that the *last* name I enter is the
> > family name and it appears in the File Under box as "Green, Chris".
> 
> So in other words, all contacts, regardless how they were created,
> should have "<last name>, <first name>" as sort key? That can be
> achieved in the "convert for Evolution" script fragment.
> 
> It has to be Evolution specific, because some other software might have
> other conventions.
> 
> It might also be useful to make it user-configurable, because some users
> might carefully override the suggested "file-as" string such that first
> name comes first.
> 
> > Another issue is what happens to multiple phone numbers, if an entry has
> > (for example) two or three 'Home' phone numbers what does Syncevolution
> > do with them?
> 
> SyncEvolution should just pass them through.
> 
> Does the phone throw away numbers?
> 


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