Would it be possible to combine the Phone app and the People app into one application? [answered]

But the People app is also showing recent list. Why to have two? Instead let's have just one; perhaps update the People's recent with the direction (called/received/missed) and add the "enter number" to the pulley, then we don't need the Phone app.

@CsTom oh please dont! the recent lists are different, one is latest actions (all actions) one is latest calls. One does show an entry for every action the other shows one entry per contact...

@chemist: well, I am not saying the People-app should stay as it is, but the functionality of the two would be nice to be merged in some sensible way. I am sure that a UI designer can come up with a great and relatively simple solution :-) I never understood the separate Contacts and Phone already on N9 (eventhough they're connected, you can search contacts from Phone, just like in Jolla, but then what's the point separating them?)

@CsTom we already have a together about the UI to be changed of the people-app as it is not very good to handle atm

@CsTom: the plan is to change the recent contacts list in the contact browser, so that when invoked from Phone it excludes call events, from Messages it excludes messaging events, and similar for Email.

The recent list in the people app, also takes chat (and maybe email, not tested that yet) into account, so it seems like it's a compilation of all those "recent" features in the other communication apps? But I'm not using it, so I wouldn't oppose to put it into a pulley page.

The problem with the phone app call history is the current behavior i.e. the call fires immediately when you click the entry on the call history.

This feature makes it unusable to me as it led all ready to too many "pocket" or othetwise accidental calls.

That has been the main reason for me to favor people app and look the missed calls from notification page.

At mimimun the current behaviour of the call app history list should be chaged e.g. the same as in people app recent "activity" list, which activates the contact card instead of direct dialing out.

perhaps people app should be dedicated to managing people's related properties only and all activity related to and with contact would be shown in phone app only with measures to prevent all kind of accidental activity.

@Kari: The problem with the "recent call->opens contact card" (as I wrote somewhere else too) that in this way you couldn't know which channel the recent call was made if the contact had many numbers...

@FlyingSheep: so you could just use People's recent listing (which could be slightly modified) instead of the Phone-app's recent listing :)

@CsTom I would assume that phone is able to track the number of received or made call/sms and based on the information highlight/select the correct entry on the people app detailed contact information view.

At the moment I personally prefer the combination of people app and notification page.

unfortunately the call app doesn't remember the last selection after closing the app. This means the dialer mode needs to be selected each time separately.