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[Frederik Elwert <frederik.elwert@xxxxxx>]

Hello,

since the discussion started to become confusing, I’ll try to split the
different issues at hand.

Am Mittwoch, den 30.11.2011, 21:50 +0100 schrieb Patrick Seemann:
>         
>                     3. How to display results in the dash?
>         I'm one of the 'Community Proposed Unity Design' authors, the
>         idea of displaying contact information directly in the Dash
>         was to show contact information as fast as possible. Since it
>         is not possible (right now), let's use GNOME contacts - as
>         suggested - but add to the Dash output → Icon + Name + Mobile
>         number (if the Dash supports line breaks).
>         Let's use the vertical renderer.

> 
> I'm not sure if a vertical renderer would work if we want to display
> additional information, as you said, I also don't know if we can work
> with line breaks. If we can't use the vertical renderer, maybe a
> filter option "show contact details" could be helpful. Clicking this
> option would make the dash switch to using horizontal renderers
> instead, which would give us some more space for additional text. That
> way we have a clean initial layout (vertical) with the possibility to
> switch to showing more information.

So we seem to agree that the horizontal renderer is more suitable when
displaying additional information besides name and icon.

Question: Which information to show?

Patrick wrote:
> I don't know about you all, but I think I don't ever need to look up
> any mobile numbers. Mainly because I have them all stored in my cell
> phone and if I want to call someone, I just use my phones contacts
> app. So I think showing the mobile number below each name wouldn't
> really give me any extra (useful) information.

Thibaut wrote:

> > Which information? Addresses are too long, mail address are easy
> > accessible in the user mail client and names will be displayed
> > anyway - numbers are the only really useful information left. When
> > searching for a number I prefer the number with the highest
> > plausibility to reach the person and that is the mobile number,
> > followed by the private number and the office number.

So Patrick prefers no additional information (basic view using vertical
renderer), Thibaut prefers mobile number, plus others if space allows
it.

I would also agree that telephone numbers are the only additional
information we should consider given the limited space. I often like to
look up bureau numbers of my colleagues when I am at work, so I have
different priorities than Thibaut.

Regarding the “show details” switch: I think this would somehow abuse
the idea of filters. On the other hand, having this configurable might
make sense, if we cannot find the one default we all agree with.

Suggestion: Implement a configuration option (using GSettings?) for
this, and decide on an UI for this later. This might be a filter, or a
separate configuration tool, or remain a hidden dconf-switch. I would
still be in favor of the horizontal renderer with additional information
being the default.

Regarding the telefone numbers to show: My mockup was very much made up,
since no current lens I am aware of uses it. So I don’t actually know
how much space there is in the renderer, and how many numbers we could
list. Maybe we could find out, and then decide on priorities (I’m okay
with work being the last, given it fits at all ;-) ).

Regards
Frederik