Tickets :: Comment on [#1650] Add turba preference to set which addressbooks to display

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Comment	> > >> > >> Logically this makes sense to me. Unfortunately it's also a > >> compatibility break with the possibility to be very subtle and > >> annoying. I think what you should do, and even perhaps what we should > >> do by default or recommend, is to lock the existing preferences in > >> IMP and Kronolith and use a preferences hook to retrieve the Turba > >> default_dir value when those prefs are requested. > > > > Exactly what I had just typed out before I tried to use the > non-existent Tabbed Browsing feature of Whups to reference back to > your comment and lost it all :) > > > > Even though you do that, you still have the issue that your > 'add_source' in IMP is weighted higher than the order you've selcted > for 'addressbooks' in Turba. In my mind, add_source is only defining > which addressbook you want to save addresses to and it should not be > the default selection. In fact, you may not even have it selected as > an addressbook to display. The first addressbook in the Turba > 'addressbooks' option should be selected. That's what users expect, > because I had configured localsql to be first and _everyone_ wanted > our main directory first in Turba. And they want that in IMP too. > Thats also where the idea that all Address Book related stuff should > be set in Turba and then the only option set within each module that > uses Turba would be exactly how the data made available from those > sources is used (like what fields to search, for IMP). I myself > thought that the address books selected in IMP controlled what showed > up in the Address Book available from the IMP compose screen but they > only control name expansion functions. > > > >> Think we can resolve this ticket? > > > > Sure, every ticket is resolvable with enough resources. Oh, you mean > was the original spirit of the ticket resolved? If IMP's contacts > screen behaves properly, I'd say yes. ;)
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