[Evolution-users] "Add to Addressbook" - Save instead of "Add Copy"

[theapplepie at differentmail.com]

> I'm not exactly sure how this works under the hood, I think it
> depends
> what you've changed too. When you save, there is made a lookup for
> the
> contact with similar information and based on the differences the
> merging dialog decides whether to offer "save as copy" or "merge to
> existing".

Hi Milan

Thank you for your response!

The "merge to existing" option does not appear which I think is logic
as the "Edit Full"-step already found and opened the existing contact.
When I try to save the changes, there is only the option to "Cancel" or
"Save as Copy", if I did not change anything or if I changed a lot in
each tab.


> I think your use case should be simple, it found an existing contact
> and you edited it and now you want to save it, then there's no room
> for
> a question, just write the changes to the found & edited existing
> contact, the same as it's saved without question from the Contacts
> view
> when you edit it directly (your workaround). I'm not used to this
> code
> though, then maybe there is a reason why it works the way it works.

Honestly "Add to Addressbook" could actually mean adding something new
to the address book. Maybe somebody thought this should be taken
literally and changed the code (if there is another developer) and even
if the "edit-full"-process finds an existing contact, a new contact
should be created as something needs to be added to the addressbook.
"Add or edit contact" (or something similar) would explain the options
better (which were present before).


> Maybe there is an option somewhere in the setting I could not find.
> 
> I'm not aware of any from the top of my head.

Not sure if it would be a possibility to add an option "Save to
existing contact" (or something similar) during the process to save the
changes.


> Do you recall what Evolution version you used before the 3.52.3,
> please? I can check what changes had been made between the two
> versions, there could regress something.

Thank you for doing that! Hopefully it is not too much work! I used
Evolution 3.44.4-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Cheers
Dan