> What you are looking at is *preview* > mode; it seems unreasonable to see *all* the contact information in > *preview* mode.
Users shouldn't be expected to double-click contacts and crawl through four notebook tabs mostly filled with blank fields to actually get the relevant (non-blank) information shown before their eyes. That is unreasonable, IMHO. As far as I understand, the preview window's reason of existence is especially so that you don't have to open that huge dialog to see the information you're looking for in a contact. Even more so since 1) the preview pane is scrollable 2) many users have high resolution screens now. In 1920x1200, not showing all the relevant information on a vertical preview pane — that could fit 3-6 times more info than there currently is — is a big waste of blank space. > I assume this means Contacts (the Pimlico app [1]) is still reading > data from ~/.evolution, which is understandable since we only recently > added functions to libedataserver [2] to obscure the location of > Evolution's data and cache directories as part of the move to XDG base > directories. Contacts probably has the old directories hard-coded. What Matthew Barnes said. Basically, Contacts hasn't migrated to the newer e-d-s, and I'm a bit uneasy with the fact that it is pretty much unmaintained (or almost). If possible, I'd prefer to use Evolution for future-proofness. ...But expecting my parents to double-click a contact every time "just in case that there MIGHT be some information that is not actually shown in the preview pane" makes me even more nervous. One thing I know is that average users don't *look* for hidden stuff. Hell, even *I* wouldn't think the data is there if it's not actually shown :) Should I file a bug about this? _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list