[Feature request] CardBook support (currently Quicktext reads names of CardBook contacts only from address in compose window)

[bege10]

Since I have changed to CardBook as my standard address manager I found that Quicktext does not reliably read recipient names from CardBook address books if the contact contains no last name.
If the first name is a name of two names with blank in between Quicktext reads only the first one and reads the second as last name. First names with only one name remain empty and the first name is read as last name.

Additionally, there should be an option to choose whether to read recipient names from CardBook (if installed) or standard Thunderbird address books.

[jobisoft]

There is no Cardbook support in Quicktext and there will never be. Except someone else implements it.

[bege10]

Oh, so I can be happy that it works with contacts with first and last name. How does that come?
Is there something that can be done on CardBook side to fix the reported issue?
Unfortunately I am not a developer. Quicktext and CardBook are worth to be compatible.
Thank you for your work.

[jobisoft]

I bet QT is just reading the standard contacts in the default AB. There is no code whatsoever in QT that reads Cardbooks Database.

[bege10]

To test that I created a fake contact in CardBook and it works with Quicktext as reported.

[jobisoft]

Magic. I do not know. There is no Cardbook code in QT. Maybe Cardbook also copies the new contact back into the standard AB or intercepts standard AB requests and injects Cardbook contacts. Better ask with Cardbook. Trust me. I do not support Cardbook.

[bege10]

As the fake contact is not in the standard address book it must work the second way you mention. So I will ask with CardBook and report back here the outcome. Thank you so far.

[SamuelPlentz]

AFAIR there are 2 ways Quicktext tries to gather the recipient information. If possible it searches the Addressbooks (not CardBook) for the current address. If this is not possible the recipient itself John Doe <john.doe@gmail.com> is parsed for pre- and surnames.

If I am correct this is what happens here.

[SamuelPlentz]

If you reduce the recipient to john.doe@gmail.com there should be no magic happening anymore.

AFAIR magic should be:
John Doe will result to prename John surname Doe.
Doe, John will result to prename John surname Doe.
Doe will result to surname Doe.
John will wrongly result to surname John.

[bege10]

Indeed Quicktext seems not to read the names from the CardBook contact. I changed the display name to a different name than the names. The result: first name remains empty, last name now is the display name. So in my previous tests Quicktext must have read from the address line in the compose window.
That is good for it works with contacts with first and last name, it is a pity because CardBook cannot fix it.
So I must hope for someone who is able to implement CardBook support in Quicktext.

[SamuelPlentz]

AFAIR magic should be:
John Doe will result to prename John surname Doe.
Doe, John will result to prename John surname Doe.
Doe will result to surname Doe.
John will wrongly result to surname John.

Perhaps there could be an option to switch the magic:
Doe will wrongly result to prename Doe.
John will result to prename John.

Or like this:
Doe will wrongly result to prename Doe and surname Doe.
John will wrongly result to prename John and surname John.

[CardBook]

Hi folks

I've made a pull request for this : #199

Philippe

[ovari]

Should CardBook compatibility be added to Quicktext's ATN listing at https://addons.thunderbird.net/addon/quicktext/?

Thank you