People's own phone number isn't where they expect to find it

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Twenty people were given an Ubuntu phone and asked to find their own phone number. (10 were iPhone users, 8 Android, 1 Windows Phone, and 1 feature phone user.)

The first place they looked:
- 9 in the Contacts app
- 5 in System Settings "Phone" screen
- 3 in System Settings "About" screen
- 2 in the Dialer app contacts screen
- 1 in System Settings "Cellular" screen.

So, our current placement of the phone number in the "About" screen (bug 1221908) is suboptimal.

Instead it should be in the Contacts app, and possibly in the "Phone" screen.
Where the phone is dual SIM, both phone numbers should be shown.

Only once that is done, it should be removed from the "About" screen.

<https://goo.gl/XCquqY>: "Address Book should always contain one special contact representing you as the user of the phone ... To indicate its purpose and resilience, the “Me” contact should be denoted by the word “Me” as a caption at the trailing end (with a translation hint stating that it should be extremely short); and the contact’s visual design should be subtly different from other contacts. Apart from those two differences, the contact should be displayed and ordered the same as any other contacts in the list..."

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Address Book specification updated. <http://goo.gl/7dMID9>

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

"About This Device" specification updated. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AboutThisDevice?action=diff&rev2=35&rev1=34>

[Craig Boyes (craigboyesmobile)]

Number not even showing correctly in "About" for me.

[Renato Araujo Oliveira Filho (renatofilho)]

My phone number appears on address-book-app settings.

[Olga Kemmet (olga-kemmet)]

tested on BQ r274

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Tested in Ubuntu 15.04 r82; the contact isn't present as specified. Reopening.

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

Not working in 15.04 (r3) on MEIZU MX4:
My number is neither displayed in the about screen, nor in the address book. (Unless I put it there manually...)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue mentioned in the previous comment should be reported as a new bug, the feature relies on the SIM card to expose the phone number which doesn't always seems to be the case

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-system-settings - 0.3+15.10.20150827-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-system-settings (0.3+15.10.20150827-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium

  [ Ken VanDine ]
  * Don't show the phone number in the about page, that is now provided
    by address-book-app (LP: #1364452)

  [ Robert Ancell ]
  * Use new QML package names for qml-module-qt-labs-folderlistmodel,
    qml-module-qtsysteminfo.

  [ Sebastien Bacher ]
  * [security-privacy] rename the "Lock phone" item to "Locking and
    unlocking" and do not include the screen delay as a value, it
    misleads users to think that the section is only about that where it
    also includes security options (LP: #1361127)
  * [security-privacy] use the correct access to location string (LP:
    #1388184)

  [ jonas-drange ]
  * Use wait_select_single instead of select_single to make the test
    less flaky
  * [plugin] add has-dynamic-name to allow for dynamic renaming of a
    plugin. (LP: #1475629)

 -- CI Train Bot <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:47:59 +0000

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

@renato can you follow up on the Me contact and whether we still want it

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

I took over design of the Contacts app only a couple of weeks ago, and I have not had time to review the spec yet. But the “Me” contact section, at least, is still current.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

The current display location is totally undiscoverable
The dialer app settings goes to the Phone screen, adding it there seems a good idea per the description
Moving it from contact settings to a Me contact is the design spec

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

My own phone number doesn't show up anywhere. Not in the about section and not in contacts. And it never did, not on my Meizu MX4 and not on my Nexus 5. SIM is from German provider O2 (=Telefonica).