On Sun Apr 24 2011 Leo wrote: > On 2011-04-23 04:34 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote: > > I am tempted to say that all this can easily become fairly > > complicated depending on the cultural habits for which you want to > > use such a scheme, so that at best it will always only make a few > > people happy. Always the question is not only about storing such > > information but making practical use of it in a way that is > > appropriate for the information recorded in such fields. > > The structure of the N field in vCard has survived version 2.1, 3.0 and > 4.0 (upcoming). I think it covers nearly 100% of the use cases. In > addition, the complexity isn't imposed and it allows no name info losses > when syncing with other apps (e.g. iPhone).
I still have difficulties to figure out in a more specific way how BBDB can pick up on this in a meaningful way > >>From a different perspective, I want to note that the degree field > > (which can get a better name) is designed to be a list of strings. > > So if someone feels the need for keeping name prefixes and/or > > suffixes in BBDB separate from the names themselves, it is fairly > > straightforward to develop customized versions of the BBDB display > > functions to make use of this information in whatever way that > > matches the user's needs / taste. The degree field could be renamed to a more generic "affix", which, as I said, is a list of subfields anyway. The display of both the name field and the degree / affix field are handled by the function bbdb-display-name-organization. So if you like, you could use one element of the affix list for prefixes, one for suffixes, one for whatever, and ... And you could modifiy bbdb-display-name-organization (which is a function with a few lines of code) to do whatever you like. Roland PS: I'll rename the degree field to affix unless someone proposes here a yet better name for such a field. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise Lean software platforms are now widely adopted and the benefits have been demonstrated beyond question. Learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfemails _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
