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Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] KAddressbook's icon view and formattedName
From:       Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold () kainhofer ! com>
Date:       2002-11-05 16:33:18
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Am Dienstag, 5. November 2002 17:13 schrieb Tobias Koenig:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 04:32:15PM +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
>
> > Shouldn't the icon view in kaddressbook use the formattedName as icon
> > title (the card view uses it as card caption)?
>
> It depends...
> The formatted name includes sometimes prefixes like Mr. or Prof. so
>   Mr. Andreas Mayer
> comes behind
>   Karl Schubert
>
> IMHO sorting concerning the real name makes more sence here.

True, but there might be entries without a first and a family name. These end 
up without any name and so the user probably won't find the correct entry for 
a company. That was my point. 


> > I have several entries where I store telephone number of companies, so I
> > only set the organization field and the formattedName (first/last name
> > doesn't make sense). These entries, however appear with empty icon title
> > in the icon view and are impossible to distinguish.
>
> You type in the formatted name and not the normal name?
> Why not typing in the normal name and let kaddressbook create the formatted
> name automatically?

Because a company does not have a first name or a family name, so using the 
name field doesn't make sense to me. That's what the company field is for.

BTW, these entries come from my palm, where you really have to enter the first 
and the family name separately, and of course also the company. It is only 
naturally, to not enter any first and family name, but instead the company if 
you add a shop or a restaurant to your addressbook.

Reinhold

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