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Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click

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Originally Posted by v_n900 (Post 743264)

1. How many desktops should I clear up for "MyContacts" before installing?

MyContacts will only use one desktop. The latest version will not even require a full desktop.

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Originally Posted by v_n900 (Post 743264)

2. After downloding & installing from Application Manager, should I reboot first before starting the programs?

There is no need to reboot. Sometimes after installing you will only see the blue box icon (instead of the real icon) but this doesn't affect the application.

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Originally Posted by v_n900 (Post 743264)

3. Should I start the program from the menu (top left of a desktop)?

Yes. The icon on the "programs menu" will give you access to the settings menu and also allow you to install the "widget" to the desktop.

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Originally Posted by v_n900 (Post 743264)

Or should I making a shortcut to a desktop first then start the program from that shortcut?

As now the only way to install the widget to the desktop is using the icon on the programs menu.

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Originally Posted by v_n900 (Post 743264)

Or should I start the program from a command line, please tell me step by step if it's so?

You can run the application from the x-terminal command line but it is only recommended to help me debug the application.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click

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Originally Posted by v_n900 (Post 743272)

I got the same exactly symptom as you have, with an exception, I've never had any successful installing the program. :(

Are you using the latest version? You had issues before with a bug on the mobility backend that this version should fix. That is why I asked you if you wanted to test.

I will try to fix if you provide me with the information I need. To start with the /home/user/.mycontacts/log.txt

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click

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Originally Posted by slaxe (Post 743326)

very very nice apps!
but using wav as ringtone is definitely not my cup of tea.. waiting for update on this.. hehehehe

now just serve it as my contact widgets..

The "phone" internally only use wav files for ring tones. It allows you to assign a different file format but it will convert it behind the scenes to a wav file and save it to a cache folder.

For MyContacts you just need to convert the file manually to wav before you can assign to a group. At some point I want to include the automatic conversion but can't tell you when

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click

great app! my concern is when i am online, i cannot arrange mycontacts according to availability. this is important for me so i know immediately who is available for conversation...or i'm missing something? :-)

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click

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Originally Posted by bertolt (Post 743656)

The presence status is coming... :)

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click

First, I was having a problem with single/double tapping in the widget - had to really quickly tap 4 times to open a dialog and 5 times to make a call... :) But then I read about changing the double-tap settings and it fixed it! Thanks.

Quick question - why by default it calls the home phone # on double-tap and not the cell phone number, which would be more intuitive?

Next question - can the huge font, in which phone numbers and emails are shown, be reduced? I don't think there is a need in such a huge font - N900 display is very clear and everything can be read just fine with default fonts... Plus long numbers (like international) and long emails won't fit now.

Any way to sort by last name and not the default first name?

And now a big question I have - any plans to separate the phone book (i.e. MyContacts main app) from the desktop widget and make the widget installable by itself? Oh yeah, and widget should survive reboots and doesn't require starting the phone book after every reboot :)
Don't get me wrong - I like it and I really appreciate your efforts! But personally I'm quite happy with the N900 built-in phonebook/contacts app (sorting, grouping, search, online presence) and don't see the need to re-implement those features... But, the desktop widget and the per-group ring tones are what's missing and what is the killer features! Keep up the good work! Thank you. :)

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click

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Originally Posted by denix (Post 743855)

But then I read about changing the double-tap settings and it fixed it! Thanks.

The last release has also fixed the default setting.

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Originally Posted by denix (Post 743855)

Quick question - why by default it calls the home phone # on double-tap and not the cell phone number, which would be more intuitive?

It shouldn't ... I will double check...

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Originally Posted by denix (Post 743855)

Next question - can the huge font, in which phone numbers and emails are shown, be reduced? I don't think there is a need in such a huge font - N900 display is very clear and everything can be read just fine with default fonts... Plus long numbers (like international) and long emails won't fit now.

You can customize the way most of the application looks (including the font size). You will find more information on previous posts and I think I also have some on my web site

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Originally Posted by denix (Post 743855)

Any way to sort by last name and not the default first name?

Not as now... but I will add to the list...

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Originally Posted by denix (Post 743855)

And now a big question I have - any plans to separate the phone book (i.e. MyContacts main app) from the desktop widget and make the widget installable by itself? Oh yeah, and widget should survive reboots and doesn't require starting the phone book after every reboot :)
Don't get me wrong - I like it and I really appreciate your efforts! But personally I'm quite happy with the N900 built-in phonebook/contacts app (sorting, grouping, search, online presence) and don't see the need to re-implement those features... But, the desktop widget and the per-group ring tones are what's missing and what is the killer features! Keep up the good work! Thank you. :)

There is very little practical gain on separating them - you can just not use the one you don't like. I agree with you about installing the widget directly on the desktop (like any other widget) and surviving reboots though....

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click

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Originally Posted by fcrochik (Post 743648)

I too was having an issue with this app (and HorizontalCall) not starting, stuck in "Loading...", log reading "...data is corrupted", but yesterday's first release fixed that for me. (Still waiting for the HorizontalCall fix.) Now all of my 2600 contacts load fine.

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click

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Originally Posted by jsbigs (Post 743888)

Great! Glad to know... Is the application "usable" with this many contacts? What are the big pain (slow) points?

Re: [Announce] MyContacts - 75 contacts on your desktop, custom ring tones per group and call with double-click

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Originally Posted by fcrochik (Post 743648)

No need to try to fix my problems, "ADR attribute data is corrupted" & stuck at "Loading...Please be Patient", any more because your lastest version, 0.8.7.3-1, has fixed all the problems of mine.

Big thaks to you, fcrochik, for creating a very useful program and trying to solve isues that come after it. Also thanks to other members for posting threads, thoes threads are very useful, too.