On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 14:15, Mark Shuttleworth
<mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I like the idea of rapid access to contacts, but how would we handle an
addressbook with 2,000 entries?
Travis Reitter of Collabora announced an initial release of Telepathy/Folks [1] within the next weeks.
Telepathy Folks [2] is a metacontact aggregator, this will help us with the above problem.
They need a backend to write to, so EDS was an option here..
I don't like this path, since i like my contacts flat, editable and discrete.
How my old Nokia phone does it:
* saves 1 vcard per individual
* stores vcards in a place named "Contacts"
I think with all the improvements to Tracker, Nautilus and SeiLo's work on Sezen [3], we are ready to assume a confident posture towards dealing with huge databases of personal information, e.g. hierarchical filesystems or our personal contact lists..
I was about to suggest to write the data to a single XML document, affording it to the user for manual manipulation in the even simpler form of .vcard files. I'm interested in hearing the arguments against this..