On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 17:35, Jeremy Nickurak <jer...@nickurak.ca> wrote: > How do you access an addressbook of 2,000 entries with a traditional window? > That seems like a daunting task by itself, so I'd be curious to know what > the strategy there is.
In the Contact List of Empathy, if you start typing the name of the one you are looking for, a search box will appear. You'll end up selecting the entry. There are a number of problems with this: * The search box is invisible until you start typing, making it difficult to discover. Maybe the status text box should be moved to the bottom, like in Pidgin, so that an always-visible search box can be placed at the top of the list. * It only searches contacts that are initially visible in the list. Offline contacts are usually hidden. You should be able to also find offline contacts, who you could then send an offline message or an email (that last functionality does not currently exist though). * When doing the search, non-matching entries remain visible. It's just that the selection moves to the first visible entry. * The search only matches the beginning of entries. You can't type "Doe" and expect to find John Doe. You have to start with "J". In the Messaging Menu, I would not place a list of all contacts. That could get messy with 2000 contacts. It's better to just put a search box there. If you start typing in the search box, matching contacts will start appearing in the menu. Maybe the concept of "favorite contacts" could be introduced, so you can have a couple of contacts that appear in the menu before searching. -- Remco _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
