Re: I rarely complain about Akonadi

On Thursday 26 January 2012 22:28 Anders Lund wrote:
> On Torsdag den 26. januar 2012, Thomas Tanghus Olsen wrote:
> > > I'm fighting the same issue, still in kde 4.7.4. Maybe it is time to
> > > file
> > > 
> > > another bug report or two or tree:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 1) kaddressbook (or anything) should not add empty values!
> > > 2) no app should ever display an empty value in the GUI, it makes no
> > > sense! 2) there should be a way to clean them up, when they are there.
> > 
> > Hear, hear to all 3!
> > 
> > Or #3 should rather be: should there be any empty or otherwise invalid
> > data
> > in  the backend an automatic cleanup must take place without disturbing
> > the UX, as in no flickering UI elements, no spiking CPU usage and no heavy
> > disk IO while the PC (or other device) is in use.
> 
> Yes. I'm sure that is what everyone wants...
> 
> Btw, I am using kdepim 4.4 at this point still, but with kde 4.7.4.
> 
> I'm sure of course that kaddressbook tries to do things right, but somehow
> things goes wrong either during storage or retrieval of the contact
> tags/categories.
> 
> For me, a good step would be to a check somewhere before displaying a value,
> and some means for cleaning up those objects, simply to make things
> bearable, even if it would be a temporary strategy while things are
> improved.

He, I was getting carried away ;-) But a simple check for empty/invalid values 
could improve the user experience a lot.

-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards

Thomas Tanghus Olsen
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