Click name in message to add or edit contact

Dexter should provide a DBus method "add or edit contact, with email address and name (may be empty)". To make behaviour consistent with any client of Dexter, the method should return immediately while keeping the contact editor open. If invoked a second time, it should focus the existing contact editor. This I think would be most predictable for the user and match behaviour inside Dexter.

In Postler, a small icon is shown next to all names. A click calls the above DBus method. Afterwards, the name is updated if it changed.

Would also be interesting to make typing an email address/name into the "To" field search in dexter for contacts and show a popup-list with them (much like google's instant search,but with dexter contacts..)..=)

iTuxer, it already does that! :P

really?didn't know that!I didn't actualy try it out..xD
Well,that's awesome news for me! =D

Allen, it is looking pretty good but the name matching is a bit off in one case:

"", "<email address hidden>"

If I pass no name and a new address, it matches one of my contacts that doesn't have this address. If I make it "Foo", "<email address hidden>" it works.

Alright, so the "" problem is solved.

The feature in Postler is partially done, it doesn't show an icon but only text, I need to find out why that doesn't work.

Remaining issue in Dexter: if I keep the contact dialogue open and forget to close it and then go back to Postler, and it tries to call EditContact again, nothing happens. The callback is apparently blocked by dialog.run ().

I think instead of run() it needs to set a variable and manually make the dialogue modal, and present it otherwise, so DBus callbacks aren't blocked. I'll express the idea in pythonish code:

dialog = None
if dialog == None:
    dialog = gtk.Dialog ()
    # bla
    dialog.set_modal (true)
    dialog.connect ("destroy", dialog_destroyed)
    dialog.show ()
else:
    dialog.present ()

def dialog_destroyed:
    dialog = None

For the record, the icon in Postler is working, but after some discussion I am evalutating an action menu instead of an icon.

Christian, what is the status of this currently? Can I mark this as Fixed in Dexter? I believe I solved all the problems...

implemented a "add contact" button instead.