Hi Murray, This is the guy from the Ephy / FF thread. Your message reminded me that some time ago I read an entry of yours in Gnome-planet, about gnome and people. I pointed you to Gimmie, don't know if you remember. Well, it left me thinking and I filed this bug against gimmie: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421811 Basically, gimmie is not very useful now when it comes to contact people because it just acts as a frontend for Gaim. My idea is to have it handle vcards, which store all the information about a contact: personal picture, IM direction, e-mail address, even contact phone and physical address. Having gimmie show you your vcards and link it to Telepathy, Evolution... maybe even Skype or some other alternative, would pretty much do what you suggested, wouldn't it? And it wouldn't be all that hard. You could even handle your contacts like a common file, copy them to folders and send them to other people. My technical knowledge is very limited, so I would love to hear your opinion about the issue and clarify any doubts you might have, if you're interested. I'm attaching a screenshot of how the "contacts" panel of gimmie works, in case you haven't actually seen it. Regards, David.
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