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[frederik nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/11/10 17:21, Anzan Hoshin Roshi wrote:
> On 2 November 2010 12:19, Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:kazade@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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>     Here's what I'd love from a "People" place:
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>     1. The ability to import contacts from Gmail
>     2. The ability to easily merge/edit contacts

these are the points relevant for the moment..
Most important of all:
Merge.
I usually have between 30%-60% duplication in my Contact List. If i had 
a "Manage Contacts" button somewhere in Empathy, which exposes the 
Contacts as "Individuals" in individual containers, all i would want to 
do is select all objects pertaining to a person, including 
thumbnail/avatar and click "Merge" in the toolbar.

At the end of the day, Contacts would be displayed just like Music 
Albums, Movies and Photos: thumbnails with titles..
Would be cool to see all the fields in a side pane, when one of these 
thumbs is selected.
like
[AVATAR]
Name _________   [Presence State e.g. "do not disturb"]
   @      [text]
                    [chat]
                    [email]
                    [sms]
   #       [call]
                    [Skype]
                                [Video: Yes|No]
                    [XMPP]
                                [Video: Yes|No]
www    [visit]
                    [Homepage]
                    [Blog]
                    [Social Network ProfileA]
                    [Social Network ProfileB]

>     3. The ability to email, IM, Tweet, Skype a contact

this is curretly being hindered by e.g. retarded account setup wizards 
in Evolution and Gwibber, plus the lack of Skype integration. Let's get 
your #1 and #2 i.e. native contact management right first, i suggest..

>     4. The ability to transfer a file to a contact (by whatever means
>     is available)

Contact List does this already for filexfer via xmpp
Nautilus Send To does this for filetransfer via email attachment... fun 
ends with Evolution's retarded account wizard
Giver does this, too, but that was obviously only a fun project, or 
there's no development taking it further

>     5. The ability to invite a contact to remote desktop

Contact List already implements this AFAIK:
"Share my desktop"

>     6. For Gwibber, Evolution and Empathy to all pickup the contacts
>     if they have Twitter, Email or IM accounts respectively.
>     7. Ubuntu One contact sync

Export to Google Contacts would be a step into that direction.
Ubuntu One contact sync has never worked for me, i don't know on what 
basis the devs decided they now have evidence that their implementation 
now works..

The centerpiece of the evolution you are suggesting would be a place to 
merge information artefacts into storage objects of the type that Travis 
Reitter calls "Individuals". Find all the pieces easily and put 
Pinnochio together!
There should be a way of knowing at first glance whether an individual 
is Available for instant forms of communication.

Empathy is a part of telepathy, their designated task is to bring to us 
a good IM experience up to VoIP and communicating Presence. Since this 
information is being shared without prejudice with every application 
interested via DBus, Places > People should do the same. There should be 
a functional API to allow trusted apps to use the information we 
collected about our Contacts.