Bug 291263

Summary: kaddressbook layout could be more compact
Product: [Applications] kaddressbook Reporter: rnet723
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: jjm, montel, tokoe
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: ugly UI

Description rnet723 2012-01-11 13:08:03 UTC
Created attachment 67693 [details]
ugly UI

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.4) 
OS:                Linux

I've tried to use kaddressbook and got very unhappy. Current UI is weird: really useful information about your contacts is less 1/6 of window space. I'm not sure if everybody needs addressbook list that is 1/3 of screen.
And the contact info itself? You can click on phone number or email, and it will launch related program (nice feature), BUT: how do we supposed to guess these textlines should be pressed? They should look like buttons or be highlighted some other way…
Hope kaddressbook will be perfect some day, thanks.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Start kaddressbook
2) enjoy life experience

Actual Results:  
life is unfair

Expected Results:  
This is feature request. Why do I have to fill these bug-related fields?
Comment 1 Jonathan Marten 2012-01-11 14:40:22 UTC
Changing subject to better reflect main wish.

Having clickable things highlighted as buttons in the contact view may be too obtrusive for some people.  There is a small indication that something is clickable - the mouse pointer changes to the "pointing hand" over them.
Comment 2 Jonathan Marten 2012-03-18 08:31:58 UTC
For white space issue as reported in screen shot, see review
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104308/
Comment 3 Jonathan Marten 2012-03-27 11:19:05 UTC
Git commit 432e41ffb64240d9dd054429b6b952a0af92f290 by Jonathan Marten.
Committed on 27/03/2012 at 13:17.
Pushed by marten into branch 'master'.

A more compact 2-column layout for the address book.

This simply places the collections (address books) and
the items (names) panes one above each other instead of
side by side.  There is a new "View" menu with options
for the viewing mode - the original 3-column layout, this,
or the original "Simple" layout - and also the barcode
option if this is configured.
REVIEW:104308
GUI:
I18N:

M  +13   -0    kaddressbook/kaddressbook.kcfg
M  +5    -2    kaddressbook/kaddressbookui.rc
M  +126  -58   kaddressbook/mainwidget.cpp
M  +9    -2    kaddressbook/mainwidget.h

http://commits.kde.org/kdepim/432e41ffb64240d9dd054429b6b952a0af92f290
Comment 4 Laurent Montel 2013-10-06 07:32:09 UTC
Fixed or not ?
Need to reverify it with 4.11
Comment 5 Jonathan Marten 2013-10-06 08:05:43 UTC
Yes, I believe the specific points raised here are fixed.  A more compact 2-column view is available which addresses the wasted space if the user only has 1 or a few address books.  The items that are clickable show the hand pointer which indicates that they can be, which is not too obtrusive - another way to indicate them could be with a tooltip hover, but that may be too visually obtrusive for experienced users.