Dexter - Old

Add support for contact groups

Bug #686170 reported by Sam Bristow
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Dexter - Old
Confirmed
Medium
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Bug Description

Support for custom groups for contacts would be a nice addition to Dexter. The user should be able to group contacts such as "friends" "school" "work" "ubuntu" etc and have these groups included in the search results.

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Allen Lowe (lallenlowe) wrote :

Dan and I have discussed this. We believe tags are a little bit confusing, and difficult to use. We also think they are more useful on binary type data, to make it searchable. Contacts however, are nothing BUT searchable data. Won't Fix

Changed in dexter-rolodex:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Won't Fix
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Sam Bristow (sam-bristow) wrote :

I'm curious as to how the concepts of tags or groups is confusing to users. It is a common feature amongst Google contacts, Facebook friends lists, Outlook and apple products amongst others. If they are implemented but a user chooses not to use them they don't hinder the usability compared to not having them.

It is quite a common to want to send a message to a group, say "University Friends", and if tags or groups are implemented this becomes almost trivial to expose to the user or through the api.

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Allen Lowe (lallenlowe) wrote : Re: [Bug 686170] Re: Add support for tagging contacts

for this functionality I will be using groups, not tags

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Sam Bristow (sam-bristow) wrote :

Okay, I was using the terms tags and groups interchangeably.

Cheers

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Allen Lowe <email address hidden> wrote:
> for this functionality I will be using groups, not tags
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/686170
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> Title:
>  Add support for tagging contacts
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Danielle Foré (danrabbit)
summary: - Add support for tagging contacts
+ Add support for contact groups
Changed in dexter-rolodex:
status: Won't Fix → New
description: updated
Allen Lowe (lallenlowe)
Changed in dexter-rolodex:
importance: Wishlist → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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