[Gpe-list] GPE Contacts on Nokia 770

[Peter Bart]

On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 19:20 +0100, Florian Boor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Peter Bart schrieb:
> > 	I have some questions about the contacts part of the PIM suite. Is
> > there a way to select an email address from the address book and have it
> > put in the address field of an email message? Or would it be possible to
> > export the GPE Contacts data base into the Nokia Contacts which does do
> > that?
> 
> currently these functions are missing, but it would be really easy to add
> assuming there is a way to do that with the email application.
> It might be woth to take a look and check what the "New e-mail" function in the
> navigator calls.
> About sharing contacts: There doesn't seem to be a defined way to get contacts
> into the 770 but it is using EDS, so it should be possible... we should consider
> to support EDS as a data backend for GPE as well.

	For what it's worth I'm not married to the existing email app on the
Nokia. It doesn't work well for me because I have multiple accounts. So
if you have one you'd rather have by all means!


> 
> > 	Is there a way to select a phone number in the GPE database and have it
> > placed in a bluetooth phone for dialing?
> 
> Not yet :-( You see i need more free time... but i remember someone was working
> on support for this. Patrick maybe...
> There is a project at garage.maemo.org (phone-link) that is intended to do this,
> but i didn't manage to make it work so far. But it might teach us how to do this
> on the 770 and therefore an easy way to do the same in gpe-contacts easily.

	Oh yes, free time. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm where did it go?


> 
> > 	Also is there a way to copy an existing GPE entry? I find myself making
> > duplicate and triplicate entries. The situation I have is I will talk to
> > a local representative (1st entry) who works for a representative agency
> > (2nd entry) that represents a particular manufacturer(s) (3rd entry).
> > The notes field of each refer to the others. The reason I do this in
> > this manner is I will have a product I have a question about but not be
> > able to remember the local reps name. Or the other way around. So I will
> > make one main entry, copy it x times and make minor changes so it's
> > searchable any which way.
> 
> That seems to be a quite specific situation... usually you would like to make it
> the other way around and merge all existing entries. Adding a copy function
> should be quite trivial but its unlikely that an average user needs this... or
> am i wrong?

	I'm not sure if this is specific to me or not. Anyone? I don't merge
entries because the local sales rep will have one set of contact
information he shares with the agency he works out of and the
manufacturer of course will have yet a different set. All of these are
linked via entries in the notes section referencing the others. This
helps me when I'm faced with a product and need to find the local rep or
agency.


> 
> > 	I understand that the first two involve so many outside variables that
> > it may not be possible at all or because you have other things on the
> > agenda with higher priorities. Please understand I do not have formal
> > computer training, I am a former MS user who recently switched to Linux.
> > Peter
> 
> I don't think it is too complicate - more or less all the bits to do this should
> be out there and should be not too complicated to add. Supporting EDS to share
> the contact data might be the most complex thing to do.
> I think these are some good enhancements to make gpe-contacts much more useful.
> Could you add them to the wiki (maybe here
> ttp://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/GpeThingsToDo) or open enhancement bugs against
> gpe-contacts in bugzilla?
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Florian

	I would be happy to. Which is preferable? Or both? Thank you for your
time.

Regards,

Peter