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?
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.
For white space issue as reported in screen shot, see review https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104308/
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
Fixed or not ? Need to reverify it with 4.11
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.