Closed Bug 1019511 Opened 10 years ago Closed 6 years ago

[Contacts] Import from SDCARD not consistent with devices with internal storage

Categories

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Contacts, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX
2.2 S2 (19dec)

People

(Reporter: arcturus, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [p=3])

Current contacts functionality for importing contacts from vcard is allowing us to import from the sdcard.

For new phones with internal storage, this is not working, actually if the default storage is the internal one will get this storage instead of the sdcard.

IMHO, we will need product imput here to know what to do, since we can have now more than one storage, internal and sdcard.

This is a pretty big change, as will require to have several facts into account, presence of different kind of storage, and so on.
As discussed with Wilfred in irc, we will tackle this problems in 2.1
We didn't solve this problem in 2.1 timeframe, Wilfred should we have it into consideration for 2.2? Or is too late for this?
Flags: needinfo?(wmathanaraj)
may be something of interest but not the feature we want to focus on 2.2 - can we do this once we have done all features for 2.2 and see if we can then land this.
Flags: needinfo?(wmathanaraj)
Assignee: nobody → jmcf
Target Milestone: --- → 2.1 S9 (21Nov)
Whiteboard: [p=3]
My proposal here would be the following:

When we import vCards we will try to find them in any of the storage areas available on the device and that will be transparent to the user. 

When we export vCards we will run an algorithm in order to determine the place where we leave the exported vCards:

if there is a removable storage area available, that will be used (bug 1033952)
if not we can use the default storage area if available and has enough space (we would need to calculate an estimation of the size of the exported file).
then we will try to use any other storage area.

So here my proposal is to be as transparent as possible to the user.

Carrie, what do you think?
Flags: needinfo?(cawang)
Hi, 

I don't really have a lot of background knowledge on the vcard. So please correct me if I misunderstand something here. I wonder why can't we just add a "Internal storage" as an option on the pages of Import/ Export contacts?  Thanks!
Flags: needinfo?(cawang)
Flags: needinfo?(jmcf)
(In reply to Carrie Wang [:carrie] from comment #5)
> Hi, 
> 
> I don't really have a lot of background knowledge on the vcard. So please
> correct me if I misunderstand something here. I wonder why can't we just add
> a "Internal storage" as an option on the pages of Import/ Export contacts? 
> Thanks!

In my opinion just because we will be having too many options in my opinion, and maybe the user can be lost 

But I'm not a UX guy :)
Flags: needinfo?(jmcf)
Target Milestone: 2.1 S9 (21Nov) → 2.2 S1 (5dec)
Target Milestone: 2.2 S1 (5dec) → 2.2 S2 (19dec)
Assignee: jmcf → nobody
Firefox OS is not being worked on
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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