Thunderbird Contacts

[Bryan Clark]

Hey All -

We've just released a new add-on at the Mozilla Labs Messaging site
called Thunderbird Contacts.

This is an adaptation of the existing Firefox Contacts add-on running
inside Thunderbird with a few TB specific features. The goal was to
experiment with a completely different direction that an address book
could take. If you try out the extension you'll see that it understands
how to connect to different address book sources and merge contacts.

We're hoping this will become a good talking point for future address
book discussions and it will give us lots of extra contact data to play
with when prototyping address book interfaces.

Here are all the relevant links:

Mozilla Labs Messaging
http://mozillalabs.com/messaging

Thunderbird Contacts Project Page
http://mozillalabs.com/messaging/thunderbird-contacts/

Thunderbird Contacts Release Blog Post
http://mozillalabs.com/messaging/2010/08/04/thunderbird-contacts/

Thunderbird Contacts Add-on
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/211329/

Source Code
http://hg.mozilla.org/labs/people

Feedback
https://mozillalabs.uservoice.com/forums/68185-messaging-add-ons

Thanks for checking it out,
~ Bryan

[Ben Bucksch]

It's great to see this ported to TB.

It was a bit hard to find (Tools | Contacts), as I was expecting it in
the TB AB window.

Unfortunately, it only supports sync with Mac AB and web services, not
any other desktop apps, e.g. MS Word serial letter. I was hoping mainly
that this would support vcard, to sync with my mobile phone, as every
decent mobile supports vcard (assuming it also has WiFi, Bluetooth OBEX
or USB mass-storage profile, which almost all have).

Syncing my TB address book to my mobile phone is critical for me, simply
so that I can phone my friends on the road (my primary AB is in TB).
Simply writing a bunch of .vcf files to a directory would allow me to do
that, in a basic way.

Compare bug 20304.

[Ludovic Hirlimann]

On 05/08/10 01:27, Bryan Clark wrote:
> Hey All -
>
> We've just released a new add-on at the Mozilla Labs Messaging site
> called Thunderbird Contacts.
>
> This is an adaptation of the existing Firefox Contacts add-on running
> inside Thunderbird with a few TB specific features. The goal was to
> experiment with a completely different direction that an address book
> could take. If you try out the extension you'll see that it understands
> how to connect to different address book sources and merge contacts.

I wasn't asked anything for Linkedin Auth ....

And In list view trying to see cards resulted in "Person is not a
registered protocol" :-(

Ludo
--
Ludovic Hirlimann MozillaMessaging QA lead
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing
http://www.spreadthunderbird.com/aff/79/2