asked 2014-07-21 00:45:12 +0200
I've had a tradition through all of my phones: I just don't need the last name of everyone in my address book, it looks too professional (personal issues ahoy:D) ! So, in Sailfish, when you try to remove the last name of a contact that has telepathy/Facebook details on, it keeps reappearing. The problem isn't present with contacts that don't have Facebook or don't have it linked.
answered 2014-07-21 02:33:47 +0200
Each time we update a contact, we aggregate together the set of details that are stored in all the contacts that constitute that contact. Because the final contact only has one name we go through the constituents in order, and for each part of the name, we do: if we haven't got a value for this part yet but this constituent has one, then add it to the final name. So, even though you have set it to have no last name in the on-device contact, when we add the Facebook constituent in, it finds a last name to add, and thus your final contact gets a complete name.
I guess we need some way to override the emptiness to mark it as not merely absent, but intentionally left blank.
Asked: 2014-07-21 00:45:12 +0200
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Last updated: Jul 21 '14
I think the use of nickname for this purpose would perhaps be a viable "workaround". Just set a simple nickname, and, uhm, wait for Sailfish to implement "show nickname instead of full name" in People app.
martinrusler ( 2014-07-21 13:01:33 +0200 )edit