[Owncloud] Contacts field formatting - Names and postal addresses in particular

[Thomas Tanghus]

On Saturday 09 March 2013 18:38 Chris Green wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 07:15:50PM +0100, Thomas Tanghus wrote:

> > If you click on the small pencil icon to the right of the name, a dialog
> > where you can edit all the fields will popup.
> 
> ... but you can't change the Display Name there.  You can thus (usually
> by mistake) end up with the Display Name having no relation to the Given
> Name and Family Name.
> 
> Whatever, I think it would be good if the Display Name was shown in the
> name editing box, then it's clear when you change the Given Name and
> Family name that you haven't also changed the Display Name.
> 
> It's also a bit odd that if you make a new Contacts entry and go
> straight to the pop-up name entry dialog you can end up with a blank
> Display Name.
> 
> E.g. if I create a new entry for Chris Green by going to the pop-up
> dialog I end up with Given Name = Chris, Family Name = Green and an
> empty Display Name.  Wouldn't it be a good idea if the Display Name is
> blank to populate it from Given Name + Family Name?

Please read https://github.com/owncloud/apps/issues/693 and feel free to add 
additional comments to it. New features will only be added to the OC 5 branch 
- and later ;)

> Thanks for all the feedback by the way, I really appreciate it.

You're welcome :)
-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards

Thomas Tanghus