Building up to the 0.7 Release

[Daniele E. Domenichelli]

Hello,

Sorry if I disappeared, but I was on holiday in the countryside with my
family and no computers/mobile phones.
I just managed to update everything a couple of days ago.

On 10/09/13 13:38, David Edmundson wrote:
> In general I'm now quite happy with it. I don't get the crashes - but
> it definitely has some rough edges. I want to move this forward, but I
> don't want to taint our stable software.
> 
> I would _really_ appreciate feedback of how well libkpeople works for
> you, and your opinions on how we take this.

Some feedback here, I should probably report some of them as bug, but
I'm very short in time at the moment, so please forgive me!

* Works! I don't get random crashes anymore! I can actually use the
contact list now! (awesome).
* Sometimes it still crashes when I close the contact list (just
reported the bug).
* I still have the multiple contacts problem (quite annoying).
* Sometimes I have a weird empty contact in a weird empty group/accout
that disappears if I switch view to account/group and go back
* Merge has some kind of weird issue, I cannot merge all my contacts by
dragging and dropping them, because I keep getting new contacts, I don't
know if it is related to the multiple contacts problem (i.e. nepomuk
feeder creating new contacts) or because they are unmerged instead of
merged. It would be really useful for testing purposes to be able to see
the nepomuk resource url in the contact list tooltips (perhaps enabled
by the same debug switch that enables the inspect menu item in the text ui)
* I don't see a way to know telepathy-nepomuk-service status, but I
believe that the user should be warned somehow when not running.
* Contact list should allow multiple selection and have an action to
merge contacts, drag and drop works but is not very intuitive
* Contact list should allow one to unmerge contacts
* If you expand and shrink a contact, you cannot expand it again until
you click on another contact. Also to start a chat with a metacontact
you have to click 4 times
* In the full list contacts and metacontacts avatar are at the same
level so you cannot really say what is what.
* The "Show contacts by account" is confusing, I'm not sure if I see all
the metacontacts that have a contact that belong to that account,
sometimes I get contacts that do not belong to any account... Also if I
start a chat with a contact in this view, I'd expect to start a chat
with the relative account...
* Right click on a contact with several metacontact gives a HUGE list of
actions, they should be grouped by account in submenus
* If KPeople was found at build time, there is no way to switch from the
old mode to the new one

Most of these problems are usability issues. Even though KPeople seems
to be stable enough, I wouldn't recommend to the packagers to enable
KPeople yet, as it will make the user experience, imho, a lot worse for
the average user. Anyway, if we had a way to switch, or even 2 different
executables for the contact list (both built from the same sources, one
with KPeople enabled and one without), so that the user can choose
whether to use kpeople or not, then I'd be ok with it, even in making it
a required dependency


Cheers,
 Daniele