[Owncloud] Proposal: Change Default Calendar and Contact DB names

Ed W lists at wildgooses.com
Sun Feb 24 20:01:22 UTC 2013


Hi, I have been looking at "other" carddav/caldav systems and whilst 
there isn't a global consensus on naming, several trends are visible:

For calendars, there is a strong trend to default to 2 default calendars 
(icloud/google):
- Home
- Work

For addressbooks things are less clear, but I see:

- Many programs have a "Collected" folder that is used to collect 
autocomplete addresses whenever you reply to someone. Common name seems 
to be "Collected". eg see Thunderbird & Outlook (and a couple of others 
I forget now)
- IOS 5 seems to have problems with multiple addressbooks and only shows 
the first defined addressbook. IOS6.1 at least seems to support multiple 
addressbooks, but I think new contacts still get added to the first defined
- Therefore you need to keep your "normal" contacts folder with a name 
alphabetically below the "Collected" addressbook...

Therefore I propose it will be most familiar to new users if we change 
the defaults as follows:

Calendar:
- Home
- Work

Contacts:
- Addressbook
- Collected


I would be happy to submit a patch for this, would a developer confirm 
it's wanted?

(Note that OC currently only creates these default names if there are no 
calendars/addressbooks defined - the change above is unlikely to confuse 
existing users or break anything particular)

Thanks

Ed W



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