default contact/address book for jessie?
As mentioned in Tincho's recent email on the RTC/VoIP/IM client thread,
none of the clients have great address book integration
But what is the address book strategy itself?
Is there a different solution per desktop? E.g. Gnome seems to have
Evolution and Evolution Data Server. I have found that in wheezy, they
are not working reliably with CardDAV - http://bugs.debian.org/740911 -
this limits their interaction with mobile devices, etc
Icedove remains popular no matter which desktop is in use. Its address
book only supports two email addresses per contact and doesn't support
the same set of phone numbers that Evolution supports. Accessing a
single address book in a CardDAV server using both Icedove and Evolution
is a pain, e.g. saving a record in Icedove can lose some of the email
addresses stored by Evolution.
I would love to try and help get the RTC clients working well with
address books, click to dial, etc. We already have sipdialer in a
package and there is an Icedove plugin (not yet packaged) that can make
address book links clickable URIs that invoke sipdialer. However, all
of these things are just pieces of the puzzle and they depend on having
a useable address book.
To make this more confusing, some protocols (e.g. XMPP) store server
side address books/buddy lists. Commercial cloud services obviously
love to encourage their users to move all data to their hosted address
books but Debian, as an organization that thinks about what is best in
technical terms and for the user, may be able to look at a wider range
of options that don't involve using the cloud by default.
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