[Syncevolution-issues] [Bug 5664] Refresh from server omits Full Name

http://bugzilla.moblin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5664 --- Comment #10 from pohly <patrick.ohly(a)intel.com&gt; 2009-08-27 07:21:41 --- (In reply to comment #9) I was expecting FN to be missing completely. Having it empty is unexpected. In a way SyncEvolution and and Evolution do what the server is asking for: storing and showing a contact with empty full name. You said that Funambol 8 used to work. Can you contact Funambol and ask for their opinion and motivation for this change? Indeed, the application cannot really tell what the right composition of the various name components is. It depends on the origin of the contact. In Germany, N:Ohly;Patrick should become FN:Patrick Ohly. In China, N:Zheng;Yanshuang should become FN:Zheng, Yanshuang (if I learned my lessons well enough). That's why I believe that FN should be treated as an independent property that can be set by the user. But perhaps your contact data doesn't have a FN and Funambol 8 was hiding that by composing it for you on the fly? Just guessing. I think SyncEvolution should at least implement a fallback, because Evolution and also the Contact GUI in Moblin have problems if the FN is missing. There is no good solution, so I suggest that we go with "<first>[ <middle>] <last>" as the FN fallback. This is also the fallback in the new logging code for SyncEvolution 0.9.1. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.moblin.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching someone on the CC list of the bug.