[address book]There's no "nickname" or "display name" fields available

Bug #1474311 reported by Michał Sawicz
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This bug affects 7 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu UX
Triaged
Medium
Olga Kemmet
address-book-app (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

In vCard there's support for all kinds of names: family, given, middle, nickname, but also a separate "formatted name". There should be a priority list for which of those would be displayed when available, and a config option to change the preference between at least "given family" and "nickname" (separate pref for "family, given", bug #1439140).

At the moment in the contacts list, I can see the formatted name (as synced from a remote address book), but when I open the contact, family and given names are displayed in the header - and I can't edit the formatted name.

When searching, only the display name is used there's no way to search by other properties (bug #1474308).

Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard, structured name (N) is required in all but v4.0, where formatted name (FN) is required in v3.0+, it seems that the locale/preference-aware formatting would have to happen when editing, and stored in FN.

We need to remember about what happens when we switch the preference - we'll need to save all the contacts with a new FN (assuming the original FN matched the previous formatting).

Organization name should be a fallback, too, if no structured or nickname is given - for organization contacts with no obvious contact person.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: address-book-app 0.2+15.04.20150701-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.4.67 armv7l
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
Architecture: armhf
Date: Tue Jul 14 12:10:13 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-09 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 - armhf (20150709-225837)
SourcePackage: address-book-app
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Michał Sawicz (saviq) wrote :
Michał Sawicz (saviq)
description: updated
Changed in address-book-app (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
summary: - There's no "nickname" or "display name" fields available
+ [address book]There's no "nickname" or "display name" fields available
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Olga Kemmet (olga-kemmet)
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: New → Triaged
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