On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 15:58 +0200, Milan Crha wrote: > On Fri, 2014-05-23 at 14:56 +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote: > > I went ahead with the X-ABLabel as parameter approach. > > Hi, > I'm sorry you didn't get any answer for this thread. I always forgot of > it, also due to not having much opinion on the subject. > > I still do not fully understand what are the custom labels for. Is it a > per-attribute property or a per-contact property? It feels like > categories, if the later. What are the labels used for in UI?
Instead if just the pre-defined "Work", "Home", "Other", etc., the user can also enter arbitrary text. For example, instead of "Other Tel: foo" the user can enter "Vacation Tel: bar" for a telephone number that is to be used when that contact is in his vacation home. It's even more important for dates. There might be a lot more dates to be stored than just birthday and anniversary, so a repeating X-ABDate property is used with custom labels to allow that. Same for related persons. Bye, Patrick _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers mailing list evolution-hackers@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
