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LordVan	2010-09-13 , 12:36
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Is it possible to have 2 lines for the name (Last and first) name since I've got several people with long last names I can see the last name but not first name (not very useful when I duno if I want to ring my mum, dad or brother ..

-- also is it possible to have the application not launch every time the phone (re)boots ?

Thanks
P.S.: i did not read all 11 forum pages here since i didn'T have the time (yet)

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	fcrochik	2010-09-13 , 13:48
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Originally Posted by LordVan

Is it possible to have 2 lines for the name (Last and first) name since I've got several people with long last names I can see the last name but not first name (not very useful when I duno if I want to ring my mum, dad or brother .. --

I assume you are talking about the widget. Am I right?
If so, having two lines would leave very little room for the avatar. It probably only makes sense if you don't have avatars - you probably don't or you would be able to recognize even people with the same last name

I am planning on adding a few more options to how the widget is rendered and will try to come up with something for two lines of text (I can't promise to have "JUST" first and last name because I am using the "full name" as "calculated" by qt mobility package).

Originally Posted by LordVan

also is it possible to have the application not launch every time the phone (re)boots ?

The new version on extras-devel (or extras-testing) fix it. Unfortunately it will take a long time for the new versions to be promoted to extras. For now you have couple options: 1) install the version from extras-devel or extras-testing. 2) remove the file /etc/event.d/mycontacts (instructions on previous posts on this thread).

Felipe

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zerocool2k	2010-09-16 , 23:35
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Just wondering why "75"? Is there something that limits this? What if I have more than 75 contacts?
TIA

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	fcrochik	2010-09-17 , 03:00
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Originally Posted by zerocool2k

Just wondering why "75"? Is there something that limits this? What if I have more than 75 contacts?
TIA

The 75 comes from having 5 "groups" each one with up to 15 contacts (5x3 grid). Once widgets don't receive "swipe" events I couldn't implement the synaptic scrolling. So there you have: 5x15=75!

By the way, this is the first time someone suggests that 75 is too little. The idea was to have your "A" list at your finger tips. In the future I plan to have the mycontacts application (not the widget) support filtering by group and include a "nice" search so you can get to your "other" contacts quickly too.

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	fcrochik	2010-09-17 , 13:31
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I have created a few groups and put people in each and would like to click on that group and send a text to everyone within that group like all the other nokias do, group messaging feature . Cant understand why nokia did not install this feature as standard but really need it on my phone. Can you tell me if yours does group texts or you know of one

This is not the first time I see this request so decided to do some digging.

What I found:

you can send a message to multiple phones clicking “new sms” on the conversations application (you will have to select one by one)
VertSMS seems to support selecting multiple phones (I haven’t checked if it actually works when multiple are selected).

In order to implement this functionality on mycontacts so you can send text to a "group of contacts" I have two issues:

1. Where would the "send sms" button be? I can't imagine anyplace on the widget and we don't have (yet) a "group filter/view" on the application.

2. How to actually send the text, few options here:

Use VertSMS - will need to work with his creator to enhance the dbus method used today
Use FastSMS - again, I would depend on his creator
Find a DBus signal to start "new SMS on the standard conversations" application
Implement myself sending SMS using Qt Mobility - would like to avoid once we have several applications that do that. How users "type the message" seems to be the big challenge and I don't have anything new to offer.

EDIT: If we figure out the basics, fMMS would be great as an option too.

Any input?

Last edited by fcrochik; 2010-09-17 at 13:35.

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zerocool2k	2010-09-17 , 16:05
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Originally Posted by fcrochik

The 75 comes from having 5 "groups" each one with up to 15 contacts (5x3 grid). Once widgets don't receive "swipe" events I couldn't implement the synaptic scrolling. So there you have: 5x15=75!

By the way, this is the first time someone suggests that 75 is too little. The idea was to have your "A" list at your finger tips. In the future I plan to have the mycontacts application (not the widget) support filtering by group and include a "nice" search so you can get to your "other" contacts quickly too.

Thanks for the clarification. I'm mainly interested in the app, not the widget. I need some contact management with better grouping abilities than the default one. So I need to make sure it can hold more than 75 contacts. And a single contact can be added to multiple groups right?

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	fcrochik	2010-09-17 , 16:15
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Originally Posted by zerocool2k

Thanks for the clarification. I'm mainly interested in the app, not the widget. I need some contact management with better grouping abilities than the default one. So I need to make sure it can hold more than 75 contacts. And a single contact can be added to multiple groups right?

Yes... The same contact can be added to multiple groups.

BTW, the application does not limit the number of contacts per group (so you can add more than 15 on each) but you won't be able to see them anywhere... for now would only be useful for the "ring tone by group" feature.

My next goal for mycontacts was to make the groups go beyond the widget (allow for any number of groups, any number of contacts per group, allow to filter groups on the application, .... ) but I got "distracted" with a new application I am creating for the n900.

In other words hopefully we will get this soon.

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Xizor	2010-09-17 , 19:57
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Hi! I had MyContacts installed to my N900 for a while and then I removed it. The result is that now my general profile ringtone is not working...it plays maybe half a second when a call comes in but then it just stops.

Has anybody else noticed something like this?

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	leetut	2010-09-18 , 00:17
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i had to remove this due to the general profile ringtone not working, has that been fixed yet?

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	fcrochik	2010-09-18 , 13:49
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Originally Posted by Xizor

Hi! I had MyContacts installed to my N900 for a while and then I removed it. The result is that now my general profile ringtone is not working...it plays maybe half a second when a call comes in but then it just stops.

Has anybody else noticed something like this?

After you uninstall MyContacts it can not affect how your phone play (or not play) ring tones. The only "left over" would be that the ring tone for the profile will show as "Crochik-general" but as soon as you assign a new one it will be like you never had mycontacts installed.