On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 12:11 +0000, michael meeks wrote: > So, > > At the risk of offending the gender-confused; it would be -extremely- > useful to have a Gender boolean in the evolution addresbook [ of course, > perhaps there is & I'm just missing it but I dug into the code ].
No. There isn't. > The reason is OO.o will vary it's salutation on gender; ie. > > Dear Mrs. Foo > Dear Mr. Foo > > etc. - now one can argue whether this is broken etc. but there it > is ;-) the current ergonomics are rather built around this - and, you > can see that such a boolean internationalizes rather nicely. Why not use 'Title' which is more generic and appropriate - there are any number of use-cases where a boolean gender would not fit. Addressing a Doctor / the Queen ;-) for eg. > So - the question is: can we have it ? currently the OO.o mail merge is > rather feeble without it. Certainly not on Evo 2.6 at this point, you perhaps already knew that. Any reason why 'Title' cannot fit your needs ? Regards, Harish _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
