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Some screenshots of what the changes looks like ?

What about it's integration in the gnome-applets package and in gnome 2.8 ?

I knew I forgot something...

Updated.

What program does the "Send Instant Message" button use? ICQ accounts are shown but the botton is grayed out...

None, there is no IM client I know of which can start a conversion sanely.  gaim's interface isn't good enough and Gossip doesn't support it.

This is pre-1.0 code remember. :)

I'd like the applet to take up less space. A possibility to hide the text entry while it's not focused or something similar would be great.

Since you are indulging in a bit of blurring out stuff why did you leave your postcode? Although I doubt anybody will turn up at your house isn't a postcode unique to a small number of houses, so basically you are giving your street name but not the number.

It's about 100 houses, so I didn't really see the point.  A phone book will tell you not only my phone number but also the full address...

I love the changes you've made since the last release.

I've been having a problem. If the applet is loaded and gnome-panel is restarted (by logging out then in or with the kill command) the applet starts but is insensitive although the "Search your address book" tooltip is set. I have a single address book, "Personal." I've found that if I create another one while the applet is insensitive then switch address books using its preferences the applet becomes usuable again. Removing and then readding the applet also fixes the problem.

Some suggestions:

URL is an URL, you should click on it and avoid that "GO" button.

Don't use drop-downs for IM and email. Just show every value like you do for phone numbers. I wouldn't like to have to open the dropdown to see all email contacts.

IM and Email are also URI's, so you just need to click on them and you can avoid the other Send/Compose buttons.

That way you can move IM and Email and make them aligned with the other values.

regards

Tip:
in contact-lookup-applet.c
(...)
evo_lookup_applet_new (...)

update_widgets (applet, TRUE);

It solves insensitivity problem.
I've no patch, please try.

Thanks for the tip Zoltan. This does solve the insensitivity problem but the applet produces an error for all entered text in the entry box. It states that the name cannot be found. :(

A very nice applet. Have you thought about integrating gnome-phone-manager (http://usefulinc.com/software/phonemgr/) for sms?

alexis -- yes, Edd and myself are friends and we have Grand Plans.

Kevin --

Yes, when applet is started EBook is not loaded.


Add a new function:

static void
evo_lookup_init_book (PanelApplet parent_applet, EvoLookupApplet applet)
{
  const char *xml;
  ESource *source;
  GConfClient *client;

  client = applet->gconf_client;
  xml = panel_applet_gconf_get_string (parent_applet, "source", NULL);
  g_return_if_fail (xml != NULL);
  source = e_source_new_from_standalone_xml (xml);

  if (!applet->book || e_book_get_uri (applet->book)) {
  GError *error = NULL;
  EBook  *book = NULL;

  /* Ignoring any errors here */
  if (applet->book) {
  g_object_unref (applet->book);
  applet->book = NULL;
  }

  if ((book = e_book_new (source, &error)) == NULL) {
  gchar *err_msg = g_strdup_printf ("Unable to open address book: %s", error->message);
 
  /* TODO handle this better */
  set_tooltip (applet, err_msg);
  g_warning (err_msg);
 
  g_free (err_msg);
  g_error_free (error);
  } else {
  applet->book = book;
  }
  }

  if (applet->book)
  e_book_async_open(applet->book, TRUE, (EBookCallback)book_opened_cb, applet);


}

and at the and of evo_applet_new():

...
if (s == NULL) {
  /* Fire the prefs callback */
  prefs_cb (NULL, applet, NULL);
  } else {
  /* load book */ 
  evo_lookup_init_book (parent_applet, applet);
  g_free (s);
  }

  return TRUE;
...

Sorry about the post i'm not familiar with gtk+/evo/panel. It's just a modified copy of Gconf entry callback function. I hope it's usable so.

Urgh, that fix surely isn't required.  I'll try fixing this later.

evo_lookup_init_book (PanelApplet * parent_applet, EvoLookupApplet * applet)
Sorry.

thanks zoltan. i'll give this a try. can't wait for the next release