Mac OS X Address Book support coming in 3.0
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Mac OS X Address Book support coming in 3.0
Mac OS X Address Book support is coming to Thunderbird 3.0 in 2008. Good news for the dozens of people who are subscribed to the relevant bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203927
mistermartin75 created a build which lowbatteries has kindly posted here:
http://lowbatteries.com/files/thunderbi ... US.mac.dmg
The feature can be enabled with the following entries in prefs.js:
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.osx.description", "OS X");
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.osx.dirType", 3);
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.osx.uri", "moz-abOSXdirectory:///"); // Or is this lowercase?
They can be added via the about:config dialogue (advanced -> general -> config editor). First and third pref have to be a string, second is an integer.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203927
mistermartin75 created a build which lowbatteries has kindly posted here:
http://lowbatteries.com/files/thunderbi ... US.mac.dmg
The feature can be enabled with the following entries in prefs.js:
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.osx.description", "OS X");
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.osx.dirType", 3);
user_pref("ldap_2.servers.osx.uri", "moz-abOSXdirectory:///"); // Or is this lowercase?
They can be added via the about:config dialogue (advanced -> general -> config editor). First and third pref have to be a string, second is an integer.
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Display Name is coming up last name first, first name last
I'll post this here since this has me puzzled.
For an entry like John Smith with email address john.smith@someglorp.com, when I compose a message, the displayed name comes up as Smith John. I can't seem to find a way to get this switched and others seem to have this working properly.
The code seems to say to defer to the OS X AddressBook display preferences, which, for me is First Name Last Name. This doesn't seem to be getting picked up. Any ideas from anyone?
For an entry like John Smith with email address john.smith@someglorp.com, when I compose a message, the displayed name comes up as Smith John. I can't seem to find a way to get this switched and others seem to have this working properly.
The code seems to say to defer to the OS X AddressBook display preferences, which, for me is First Name Last Name. This doesn't seem to be getting picked up. Any ideas from anyone?
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Yeah, I was... until I clicked on the View menu (View --> Show Name As...)
Btw, I found http://www.mininova.org/tor/830910 - works well so far.
Btw, I found http://www.mininova.org/tor/830910 - works well so far.
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I changed that - it helps in the Address Book view, but not in the email composition (where it still fills it in as Last Name First Name).
If you click on an entry, the card view will still show, under Contact, Display Name: Smith John even though the title of the card is "Card for John Smith".
Display Name is what gets used when you compose an email and that just won't change (if you look at the code, Display Name is generated by Thunderbird).
If you click on an entry, the card view will still show, under Contact, Display Name: Smith John even though the title of the card is "Card for John Smith".
Display Name is what gets used when you compose an email and that just won't change (if you look at the code, Display Name is generated by Thunderbird).
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I opened a bug.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391478
If anyone else is seeing this - add yourself to the Bug.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391478
If anyone else is seeing this - add yourself to the Bug.
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I updated http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sharing_address_books to point to the first bug report and this thread.
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I do sometimes still get the 'unable to read address book' error, and will try to see if I can figure out what it is later on.
Anybody else still gets this?
Anybody else still gets this?
Do it right, abide by W3C guidelines!
e-mail: mistermartin75 at gmail dot com
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e-mail: mistermartin75 at gmail dot com
mistermartin75 at http://www.mistermartin75.net and http://www.gnummep.co.uk
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Got it once, but didn't reoccur. Happened when I tried to save a new address into Personal Address Book I think while composing a message.mistermartin75 wrote:I do sometimes still get the 'unable to read address book' error, and will try to see if I can figure out what it is later on.
Anybody else still gets this?
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Re: Mac OS X Address Book support coming in 3.0
gordonhenriksen wrote:mistermartin75 created a build which lowbatteries has kindly posted here:
http://lowbatteries.com/files/thunderbi ... US.mac.dmg
as this is now obviously do-able for v2006 (great news!), is there any particular reason that this 'fix' is *not* being rolled into the 'official' mozilla nightlies for the 2x branch?
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Re: Mac OS X Address Book support coming in 3.0
The 2.0 branch is for bugfixes only, not for new features.mzrbdisp wrote:is there any particular reason that this 'fix' is *not* being rolled into the 'official' mozilla nightlies for the 2x branch?
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Understood.
That said, this feature affects a large enough segment of the 'population', i.e. all Mac users, that it might then be helpful to put out a 2.1x 'release' -- with *just* the addition of the AddressBook support.
Especially with TBird 'separating' from Mozilla, appealing to more folks sooner, rather than putting off a "basic functionality" (at least for Mac users) until 3.0' "sometime in 2008" release time frame, might be of value to the user adoption & retention rate.
Leopard's Mail.app -- with, no doubt, great AddressBook integration -- is likely to be out before TBird 3. Shame if more folks switched ...
But, that's a dev-team discussion, I suppose.
That said, this feature affects a large enough segment of the 'population', i.e. all Mac users, that it might then be helpful to put out a 2.1x 'release' -- with *just* the addition of the AddressBook support.
Especially with TBird 'separating' from Mozilla, appealing to more folks sooner, rather than putting off a "basic functionality" (at least for Mac users) until 3.0' "sometime in 2008" release time frame, might be of value to the user adoption & retention rate.
Leopard's Mail.app -- with, no doubt, great AddressBook integration -- is likely to be out before TBird 3. Shame if more folks switched ...
But, that's a dev-team discussion, I suppose.