On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Dylan McCall <dylanmccall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'm using a n800 with the factory-installed OS. >> >> Does the Contacts application really provide no way to enter a street >> address, that is, a regular postal mailing address, the plain old >> physical-letter-in-a-physical-envelope-with-a-stamp-on-it kind of address? >> People still do need to write letters on paper sometimes. >> >> When I select contact->New Contact I get to provide First Name, Last Name, >> Nickname, E-mail, and Jabber. For a while I was astounded that there >> was no provision for a phone number. But then I discovered I could also >> choose Add Field and get to provide E-mail (again?) Phone, >> Web Address, and Jabber (again?). >> >> But no plain old old-fashioned address. I don't even need to >> formally split into street names and numbers, etc. >> Just a plain old multi-line text field would do (Unicode or UTF-8 >> preferred, of course). > > I find that Pimlico Contacts does this job rather well. Whether Pimlico > is a good suite or not seems to be a hotly debated issue. I have kept my > nose out of that issue and have maintained blissful ignorance to its > flaws, whatever they be. The reason I like it for contacts is because it > talks to the contacts system built in to Maemo. Regrettably, the > integration of the chat system and the rest of contacts seems to produce > nothing but messes for me, likely because I frequently talk to myself > over a variety of messaging protocols, but I am sure other people see > different results. > > Rather importantly, Pimlico does custom fields, and (I believe...) uses > Evolution. > > Bye, > -Dylan > > PS: Oh, and hi, list! > For those of us new to Pimlico, here it is: http://www.pimlico-project.org/index.html Contacts: http://www.pimlico-project.org/contacts.html And here's the Maemo-specific information: http://maemo.o-hand.com/ ITOS 2008 (Nokia N810, N800) Web address: http://maemo.o-hand.com/packages Distribution: chinook/ Components: IT2007 (Nokia N800) Web address: http://maemo.o-hand.com/packages Distribution: bora/ Components: Nokia 770 Web address: http://maemo.o-hand.com/packages Distribution: gregale/ Components: Apparently one has to add the repository manually. To do that, i Application Manager go to Tools->Application Catalog, then click "New", and fill in the blanks. Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
