[turba] Further to; Firstname / LastName in addressbook - splitting them up

[lst_hoe at kwsoft.de]

Zitat von Johny <horde at agotnes.com>:

> Quick one for Horde Maintainers;
> 
> About a month back I made some patches to Turba to split up firstName / 
> lastName in the address book and also make the Imp integration sweeter. 
> I've attached my notes from the changes, see previous thread with 
> similar subject (strip 'Further to;' ) for actual patches.
> 
> Question; If I forward port to HEAD, you lot interested in checking in 
> to CVS? Coupla guys liked my change, but not an overwhelming response ;) 
> If interested, let me know, otherwise I'll just run with my patches 
> until the next stable versions, at which point I'll forward port for my 
> own benefit if I feel like it at the time ;)
> 
> Notes in last posting;
> 
> ---
> I've got some patches against 1.2 which do the following, tested against 
> LDAP as the backend ;
> 
> Add Contact -
>    You cannot edit the 'Name' field anymore, instead;
>    Add First Name / Last Name, it makes a composite Name out of these 
> and submits to driver.
>    In LDAP this sets cn to composite name, sn to last name and givenName 
> to first name, basically from the sources.php mapping.
> 
> Edit Contact -
>    Name is made Read Only on form.
>    Editing First Name / Last Name re-sets the Name appropriately and 
> submits to driver.
>    Updating one or both of FirstName/LastName causes the Name to be 
> modified and updated appropriately.
> 
> I have a plan to do the following too;
> On Add to Addressbook (the wee icon) I'd like to pop up a wee entry 
> form, pre-populated with FirstName, LastName and Email, potentially the 
>   Add Contact form?. The pre-pop could be reasonably smart;
> 
>    John Smith (FirstName LastName)
>    Smith, John (LastName, FirstName)
>    Smith John (would fail, however, cut&paste would allow for easy fix)
> 
> Question is, is this of interest to others? Do any of the Horde blokes 
> see it as useful enough to warrant inclusion in the standard distro? If 
> so I can re-jig my changes to work with the HEAD and submit proper patches.
> 

I would vote for splitting up the name in firstname/lastname fields too.

Regards

Andreas