Bug 132847

Summary:	kontact change contact address does not alter the address label
Product:	[Unmaintained] kab3	Reporter:	Peter Lewis <peterl>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Tobias Koenig <tokoe>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Peter Lewis 2006-08-23 10:41:47 UTC

Version:           3.5.3 (using KDE 3.5.4 Level "a" , unofficial build of SUSE )
Compiler:          Target: i586-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.16.21-0.13-smp

When a contact has only one address, and that has an address label, it might be expected that the address label reflects the contents of that one address.
When the one address is edited, the contents of the address label are not changed.
If there is a label, it is the contents of the address label that are displayed in kontact. Editing the address without editing the address label appears to have no effect on the address stored for the contact.

To test this open an "Edit Contact" dialogue for a contact that has only one address and has an address label, alter the address in any way by clicking on "Edit Addresses..." but do not edit the label. Click "OK" on the "Edit Address" dialogue and then click "OK" on the "Edit Contact" dialogue. Note that the address displayed for the contact has not changed.

If the address label were to be able to contain codes selecting elements of the contact's address, for example %<Home:Street> to select the contents of the "Street" element in the "Home" address, then the label would always reflect the address, however edited. This would resolve this problem and a user could specify a default address label format.

Comment 1 Tobias Koenig 2007-02-13 18:33:30 UTC

Hi Peter,

I think you missunderstood the meaning of the label. The label is meant to be indepentend
of the other address input fields to allow custom formatting and other representation of the
data.

Ciao,
Tobias

Comment 2 mattm3a 2007-02-14 08:33:03 UTC

What is the point of having multiple representations? If I want to enter custom formatting, it would make more sense to simply enter it once, when adding all of the other address information.

Comment 3 Peter Lewis 2007-02-14 09:55:55 UTC

Hi Tobias,

If the settings for address book had a field where one could enter the desired formatting information with place-holders for the street, P.O. box, locality etc.

Better still the address book settings could hold a number of formatting fields which would be selected by addressee's country. There would have to be a preferred country as default in case the country was not specified in the address.

While I am about it, a menu item on the right mouse button pop-up menu in the right hand field of the kontact address book page to copy the address to the clipboard, and one to copy the email address to the clipboard, would be nice!

It is a great application with scope for improvement in the usability.

Thanks,
Peter

Comment 4 Tobias Koenig 2009-08-05 16:30:54 UTC

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.