Contact information not shown in the inferior frame

[Santiago Erquicia]

The contact information has to be shown in the inferior frame when one selects
it. Nothing happens right now.

If I start the program from the console there isn't any message about this.

[Santiago Erquicia (santiago-erquicia-gmail)]

I found out today that on the Contact view, you have the option of turning on
"Preview Pane". When I did it everything appears in the bottom frame.

I guess that the problem is that you can see the bottom frame even if you don't
have selected to preview your contact information. If you don't have it
selected the whole frame should be invisible.

[Santiago Erquicia (santiago-erquicia-gmail)]

It looks like this bug has been fixed upstream.

This is what happened (they fixed it today on the gnome-2-8 branch)

Quoted from the gnome-i18n mailing list:

The schema for the preview pane visibility GConf setting is missing.
This means that the default value is not set. In this case,
gconf_client_get_bool will return FALSE. The "Preview" pane is really a
misnomer, it is, in fact, the "View" pane. So, by default, the user
will not see Addressbook entries when they are selected. This is very
confusing for first-time users. Most will not think to look in the view
menu for an option to turn something on that they don't already know
exists. Also some others don't think the "Preview" pane describes what
they need.

In fact, I only discovered this bug after doing some first-time user
testing of Evolution-2.0 on RHEL3. It was one of the most common
complaints (many of the others have already been fixed). This hits the
user in that critical initial evaluation period.

[Jeff Waugh (jdub)]

We now have the fixed upstream version in warty.