| Summary: | No Formated Name in Table view | ||
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| Product: | kab3 | Reporter: | Avi Alkalay <avi> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Tobias Koenig <tokoe> |
| Status: | RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | RedHat Enterprise Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Avi Alkalay
2004-08-29 15:35:16 UTC
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 01:35:17PM -0000, Avi Alkalay wrote: Hi Avi, > I synced from my Palm, and by default kpilot does not create > the "FN:" field in address entries. > > Then KAddressBook does not automatically calculate them in Table View mode. Of course not, because the formatted name has to be set explicitely by the user, that's the meaning of this field. > It does autocalculate in Card or Icons View mode. No, they doesn't use the formatted name field for displaying, since the formatted field could be empty, and a icon or card without a title looks quite strange ;) In the table view instead, you can have several other columns, so an empty formatted name field doesn't matter much. Ciao, Tobias OK, so from my point of view, this is a usability issue. I personally think that to have too columns is a waste of space and not very clear for human eyes and brains. Any other address book tools I've been using (e.g. the Windows Palm Desktop) joins them in one field. Besides, it is not exactly explicitly set. If you simply set a name and last name, FN is automatically set. Or if you open the contact (that doesn't have a FN set) dialog, you can already see a formated name already (automatically) there, but on the table view its still not there. I still think this is something that must be tunned, for usability. Or at least add a special column option as "joined name and last name". Again, this is something that happens only when you import from Palm. If you create a contact by hand, FN will be automatically calculated, as it should be. On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 03:45:19PM -0000, Avi Alkalay wrote: Hi Avi, > OK, so from my point of view, this is a usability issue. > I personally think that to have too columns is a waste of space > and not very clear for human eyes and brains. Yeah, so use just the formatted name field and tell your pilot tool to create the formatted name. That's not a usability issue in KAddressBook but a wrong handling. > Any other address book tools I've been using (e.g. the Windows Palm Desktop) > joins them in one field. Well, then they don't follow any specification... read RFC2426 for the purpose of the formatted name field. > Or at least add a special column option as "joined name and last name". That's the same like formatted name... > Again, this is something that happens only when you import from Palm. > If you create a contact by hand, FN will be automatically calculated, as it should be. So it's a problem of the tool you are using for importing your contacts from the Palm Ciao, Tobias I synchronized contacts with Nokia 6600 - ALONsoft ContactGuide application exports vcards without FN field. so i got hundreds of blank contacts. i think that FN should be auto-generated if no FN exists. The development of the old KAddressBook will be discontinued for KDE 4.4. Since the new application has the same name, but a completly new code base we close all bug reports against the old version and ask the submitters to resend there reports against the new product. |