Bug 131620

Summary:	Sharing of personal information
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Component:	evolution-data-server	Assignee:	Dave Malcolm <dmalcolm>
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Description Matthias Clasen 2004-09-02 18:15:22 UTC

I had to enter my full name, email address and other pieces of
personal information in quite a few setup wizards by now (gaim,
evolution, gnome-meeting, probably some more). That sucks, they should
all share their information. Isn't evolution-data-server supposed to
provide this ?

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2004-09-25 05:57:57 UTC

Not really a YellowPad bug

Comment 2 Dave Malcolm 2005-05-12 21:10:41 UTC

We could prepopulate some of the input fields from GECOS/LDAP and other places
to streamline the configuration process.

There's also a feature request upstream in e-d-s/evo to have a "me" contact,
though I can't find it right now.

Moving to FC5 tracker

Comment 3 Dave Malcolm 2006-01-12 00:24:52 UTC

Old thread about this:
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/2004-February/002909.html

gnome-about-me in control-center package goes some way towards this.

Comment 4 Dave Malcolm 2006-01-12 00:38:39 UTC

gnome-about-me uses e_book_get_self to locate the "self" contact and book; this
is implemented in e-d-s's libebook by storing it in GConf in
/apps/evolution/addressbook/self/self_uid

So we at least have an API for this.  Need to go through the various apps and
have them call e_book_get_self and grab initialization data accordingly, and if
it's not there, (offer to?) upload the data to e-d-s so it will be for the next app.

Comment 5 Dave Malcolm 2006-01-12 01:01:30 UTC

gnome-about-me does a few other tricks, like writing to gecos for the fields
that are supported there (some overlap between the two), and writing the image
to ~/.face so that it gets picked up by gdm.

Comment 6 Dave Malcolm 2006-01-12 01:11:37 UTC

These tricks probably ought to be moved into libebook so that there's a
consistent API, and so that when you edit yourself in Evolution's contacts
component it updates those other data stores.

Comment 7 Dave Malcolm 2006-01-13 20:46:31 UTC

I've filed this upstream here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326899