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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] KABC Addresses
From:       Tobias Koenig <tokoe82 () yahoo ! de>
Date:       2002-09-28 14:36:27
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On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 04:54:00PM +0200, Anders Lund wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Anders,

Yahoo seemed to eat my emails, so here it is one more time :)

> I think it would be a good idear if kabc provided a formatted version of 
> adresses
We had already a discussion about it and came to the conclusion, that we'll
use templates for it. But we have to wait with it, until the KLanguageCombo
and KCountryCombo is part of kdelibs. Because in the vcards the country name
is stored and the l10n stuff of KDE needs a country ISO code (like 'de' for
Germany) we need this two widgets for translation.
So we should implement it for KDE3.2.

> some even in the filed lists:
> 
> Preferred Address (formatted)
> Home Address (formatted)
> Buissness Address (formatted)
No. The Field class is for easy access of string representation of a value.
It do value->string transformation and vice versa, but
  1) address parsing is horrible
  2) for your mentioned needs you can use the formattedAddress() directly
  3) Cornelius is against it ;)

> "Postbox %Postbox" PURGE_NO_VALUE
> %Street PURGE_NO_VALUE
> %Locality", %ZipCode"
> %Area PURGE_NO_VALUE
> %CountryCode %Country PURGE_CURRENT_LOCATION
We should use short parameters like %r = region, %s = street.
Furthermore the template has to be in _one_ line (it is saved in a kconfig file)

The purge stuff sounds good, but maybe the PURGE_CURRENT_LOCATION
should be ommited, I can imagine that many users will complain about the
missing country name ;)

> So my suggestion is, that we add the needed methods/data as soon as possible 
> w/o creating BIC issues:
There's no hurry, adding methods isn't BIC as long as there won't be new member
variables.

> * a QString as_string() method in the Address object
I would prefer Address::formattedAddress(); like Cornelius mentioned.

> * members in KABC::Field and KABC::Addressee
No need for it, the string is created on the fly in Address::formattedAddress().

> * address formatting information to (KABC local?) l10n database
The templates should be stored in $KDEDIR/share/locale/l10n/<cc>/entry.desktop
We can access this file with
  locate( "locale", "l10n/<cc>/entry.desktop" )
where <cc> is the country ISO code.

Ciao,
Tobias
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