Re: Susteen Cable Information

"Michael C." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.bitpim.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Joe Pham wrote:

>In BitPim, you can readily do that by using the Historical Data feature.  Roger designed & built that capability into the database schema when he ported the BitPim DB to SQLite.  The Historical Data GUI is currently available only to Phonebook/contacts, but can be easily implemented to other areas such as calendar events, SMS, etc.
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I will have to look into this; I did not see it when I was looking, but 
then again, I wasn't looking for it specifically.

>I understand your need to possibly maintain one phonebook that can support multiple phones.  It might be something worth looking into.
>
Actually, I was saying that I like the idea of having multiple 
phonebooks for the various phones, each independent of the other.  For 
example, one household may have three phones:  Mom, Dad, and Junior.  
Mom and Dad have the same type of phone (say Model A), whereas Junior 
has a different one (Model B).  In this case, Mom and Dad need different 
phone books (maybe with the possibility of cutting and pasting from the 
other's phonebook).  However, based upon what I see within BitPim, since 
they share the same model of phone, BitPim will merge the two 
phonebooks, not to mention, the wallpaper and ringtones.  Junior comes 
along with his phone, and again, all the numbers merge (again, based 
upon my experience with the VX4400 and VX4650).

Having one phonebook which can handle multiple phones may be very 
difficult at best (how do you differentiate between phones of the same 
model), whereas, keeping separate files completely may be the easier option.

BTW, I'm not saying this needs immediate attention.  I think we need to 
get BitPim stable given its current functions, and then release it as a 
stable release.  We can work on this afterwards.

Mike



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