Re: Another Store Address Patch

[Nathan Clemons <nathan windsofstorm net>]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, paul lewis wrote:

> What about using a separate Gnome card file for Balsa? Balsa will by default
> look at the balsa.gcrd file and will store all addresses there. If users need to
> find balsa stored address they can open the default Balsa.grcd file from within
> Gnome card, and modify it there.
> 
> There will be no problems with synchronizing the Gnome card instances and it
> is not terribly outrageous to have two address books. Is it?
> 

At the same point, how helpful would it be if you want to pull up XYZ
contact and it's in the different address book? I think the other
suggestions have more merit (in particular, patching GnomeCard to look if
the file is locked or has been modified more recently than the copy in
memory).

> FITZSIMMONS THOMAS wrote:
> 
> > Here is a patch that creates a popup window with Card Name, First Name,
> > Last Name, Organization, and Email Address fields when the user wants to
> > store an address.
> >
> > I also added a Store Address item on the message menu. The shortcut is
> > 's'.
> >
> > There are still two problems:
> >
> > 1. When the user has GnomeCard open and is storing addresses in balsa,
> > then closes GnomeCard, saving changes that GnomeCard has made will
> > overwrite the vCards stored from balsa. Does anyone know a good way of
> > checking whether GnomeCard is running? Are there any other Gnome programs
> > that check to see if another program is running?
> >
> > 2. The first time the user tries to store an address in balsa, they will
> > get an error if there is no GnomeCard.gcrd file. I think this needs to be
> > addressed in the balsa installation druid -- the installation should not
> > proceed unless there is an accessible GnomeCard.gcrd file in ~/.gnome.
> >
> > I applied the patches to the balsa-0.8.0 tarball, after applying my
> > previous patch (now in CVS). Put src-store-contact-patches in src/ and
> > libbalsa-store-contact-patches in libbalsa and run
> > patch < filename
> > for each one.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *** ../balsa-0.8.0/src/balsa-index-page.c       Thu Jun  8 18:33:25 2000
> > --- ./src/balsa-index-page.c    Thu Jun  8 18:39:30 2000

I think we all got the attachment the first time. When replying, let's
please not send it out again. Thanks.

--Nathan

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