Re: OT Seach for Elaborate Address Book Program
On 2012-05-25 17:39, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I am planning to put a vast array of handwritten notes into some kind of
> order. Notes include names and associated information - addresses,
> phone numbers, email addresses, spouse's name, childrens' names, boat
> names, birthdays, misc information.
>
> An elaborate address book? An apt-cache search addressbook found
> several programs. rubric seemed the closest to meeting my needs but
> there was an installation problem:
>
> Unpacking replacement rubrica ...
> Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
> Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
> Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> Processing triggers for menu ...
> Processing triggers for gconf2 ...
> WARNING: failed to parse type name `boolean'
> WARNING: invalid or missing type for schema (/schemas/apps/rubrica2/file/load_files)
> WARNING: no <list_type> specified for schema of type list
> WARNING: invalid or missing list_type for schema (/schemas/apps/rubrica2/file/files)
> WARNING: failed to install schema `/schemas/apps/rubrica2/file/files', locale `C': Schema specifies type list but doesn't specify the type of the list elements
> Setting up rubrica (2.0-1.2) ...
> Processing triggers for menu ...
>
> it wont work.
>
> Any suggestions of other programs to consider?
>
> Tom
>
>
Hi Tom,
I use Thunderbird. The built-in addressbook amounts to not much, but
with the extension "More Functions for Addressbook" you get a whole load
more functionality. Next to the standard 4 custom fields you get 10
extra fields to use as you want and a whole set of additional e-mail
fields. It will also greatly improve support for vCards, which is at a
bare minimum without this extension.
Kaddressbook used to be good too, but with the transition to Akonadi
things have gone down the drain (at least as far as my usage scenario is
concerned).
Another option could be to use something like LibreOffice Base, Kexi, or
Glom to make it yourself. Those applications are somewhat like MS
Access, so you wouldn't have to go down the road of programming it
yourself from scratch.
On the other hand Lazarus (a Delphi-like GUI Builder on top of Free
Pascal) has a fully functional example of an addressbook, which you
could easily adapt to your own needs, if you would prefer to write it
yourself and are familiar with Pascal.
Grx HdV
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