"Addressbook" in address book card is confusing

Bug #1485649 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
6
This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
address-book-app (Ubuntu)
New
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Ubuntu 15.04 r99, BQ Aquaris E4.5

1. Add a Google account to Contacts, if there isn't one already.
2. Create a new card with someone's name and a phone number.
3. Sometime later, navigate to the card.

What you see: "Addressbook" and your Gmail address.

What's wrong with this:
* "Addressbook" is not a word, except for software developers.
* You could easily misinterpret this as meaning that you accidentally entered your own e-mail address as the contact's e-mail address.

As far as I can tell, "Addressbook:" here means "The place where you want the contact to be stored". You can't choose to store a contact in more than one place, but I guess that's a separate problem.

What you should see:
* The place where the contact is stored is labelled more plainly, for example, "Stored in:" rather than "Addressbook:".
* The location is displayed very differently from normal e-mail addresses. For example:
    - as "Google (user.name)" rather than an e-mail address, and/or
    - with more vertical empty space between this and the actual contact data, and/or
    - in a smaller font (compare bug 1364638).

Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :
description: updated
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.