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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark, thanks for putting this vital point onto the discussion table ;)

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..



¹ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/telepathy/2010-June/004632.html
² http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Folks
³
http://seilo.geekyogre.com/2010/06/first-sezen-screencast-an-introduction-to-sexy-simple-searching/