From: "Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Some remarks on org-contacts
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:36:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80vcwqq9zl.fsf@somewhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87aae2fpe3.fsf@rub.de
Hi Sven and al,
"Sven Bretfeld" wrote:
> After some days of using org-contacts with Gnus, I would like to make
> some comments. I know that this is an early stage of the development,
> but I think some views and suggestions by users could help Julien or
> other developers to decide what could be done in the next steps of their
> work. There seems to be no roadmap on the homepage of the project.
>
> - The buffers displaying the contacts file(s) get the "changed mark"
> whenever something is done with org-contacts. Even if only a name was
> searched and no changes have happened at all. Is it a bug or some
> feature that I don't understand?
>
> - The last-read-mail property is a good idea, but it has the
> disadvantage of changing the file. People using Dropbox or other
> synchronization tools have a problem here, because they have to
> remember to manually save the file before they start to work on
> another computer. There should be an auto-save-hook or something
> similar.
>
> - What I deem most important: For quite a few contacts most people will
> use to have more than one email address. Org-contacts stores all
> addresses under the same property with no preference on one of them
> (unlike BBDB which uses the first entry as a default for completion).
> It is annoying to hit tab 3 to 4 times before the To-header is
> complete. It would perhaps be best to have only one address in the
> EMAIL property and to store alternate addresses in another property
> (SECONDARY_EMAIL). The SECONDARY_EMAIL could be called by a special
> function that could be set to a key different from TAB (maybe C-u
> TAB). Maybe it is even possible to expand to the default address by
> hitting TAB once, and to give a list of the other addresses by hitting
> TAB once again.
>
> - What can you do with ICONS? Arte they only for chatting? It would be
> nice to have a small window automatically opening below an Article
> buffer in Gnus that displays information about the author including
> his/her image.
>
> - Email, phone numbers and postal address should be displayed in the
> Agenda buffer when a name is searched by org-contacts. Maybe it would
> be possible to display different information by hitting certain keys:
> "m": mobile-phone, "e": email, "b": birthday, "a": all etc. At the
> moment one has to switch on follow-mode to display the information. I
> deem this not very beautiful. For my taste, the look-and-feel of an
> org-file with lots of property lines is not an aesthetic pleasure. A
> tabular output (including a picture of the person) would be much
> nicer.
>
> - There should be a function to sort the entries of the same level in
> contacts files alphabetically.
>
> Thank you very much for org-contacts.
And the cherry on the cake would be: snarfing data from received email, asking
the user what to do when a new email address is detected for a known contact,
or a new name detected for a known email address...
Having those definitely would make org-contacts more powerful than BBDB --
though, I don't know what's planned in v3 of BBDB.
Best regards,
Seb
--
Sebastien Vauban
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-01 7:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-31 22:59 Some remarks on org-contacts Sven Bretfeld
2011-06-01 7:36 ` Sebastien Vauban [this message]
2011-06-01 9:41 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-06-01 11:59 ` Julien Danjou
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