On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 20:15 -0500, Jeff wrote: > Ugh, I have an additional problem: what if someone has multiple homes? > In Evolution, I edited a contact with two home phone numbers, so it > looks like: > TEL;TYPE=CELL;X-EVOLUTION-UI-SLOT=3:1 613 something # shows up > TEL;TYPE=HOME,VOICE;X-EVOLUTION-UI-SLOT=2:1 613 something2 # shows > up > TEL;TYPE=HOME,VOICE;X-EVOLUTION-UI-SLOT=1:514 something3 # doesn't > show up > I understand that it doesn't want to display two phone numbers in a > column, but I don't see why the third one (which happens to be UI slot > 1) doesn't show up in the preview pane. Kind of a show-stopper. I'm > not sure what to "trust" will be displayed anymore.
How is this a "show-stopper"? What you are looking at is *preview* mode; it seems unreasonable to see *all* the contact information in *preview* mode. I'm assuming that it displays one of every kind of number; I would have expected it to prefer X-EVOLUTION-UI-SLOT=1 over X-EVOLUTION-UI-SLOT=2 but I can understand that the X-EVOLUTION-UI-SLOT attribute may only be used by the edit dialog. I see that exact behavior of only seeing one "Business Fax" number in preview mode for a contact with multiple Business Fax numbers [in Address Card or List Mode]. And it is choosing X-EVOLUTION-UI-SLOT=4 over X-EVOLUTION-UI-SLOT=2 [or perhaps it is just showing the arbitrarily-first, in the vCard representation, of each type, since they seem to reliably listed in reverse order in the vCard]. Assuming both Business Fax#s are correct - it doesn't make any difference which one I use. > The reason I was trying to do this migration/conversion is to ensure > that the data is somewhat "safe" from this kind of weirdness in the > first place! (I know that Contacts doesn't quite handle the fact that > evolution's folder paths have changed in recent versions, so I fear > running into trouble in the long term). I don't understand what "Contacts doesn't quite handle the fact that evolution's folder paths have changed in recent versions" means. Have you lost data? I wouldn't equate not seeing data in preview mode to data-loss. Evolution's very good vCard management [import / export] I consider to be a killer-feature where I never need to worry about the safety or portability of my data. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
