1735630 - Add default address book choice for manually adding contact in message header pane (Add to Address Book)

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

• Click on star of address in message reader's header adds to "Personal Address Book".
• Contextual Add to Address Book does the same.
• (Enterprise) user cannot change the target AB for manually added contacts.

Enterprise users will probably not be happy with all of their manually added contacts ending up in Personal AB. I think we should implement a pref with UI to choose a custom default AB for that action, like we currently have a UI pref to change the target AB for Collected Addresses.

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Attachment: Mockup 1: New pref: `Default address book for manually added contacts`

Here's how the new pref could look.
Of course, we can tweak the label:

• Default address book for manually added contacts (see mockup)
• Default address book for adding contacts (I like that, short and simple).

The AB from the suggested pref will also be used when focus is on All Address Books and you create a new contact.

Comment 2

[g.hub]

Actually I expected changing the preference "Default startup directory in the address book window" to my default address book to also change where addresses are saved by default, but that is not so...

It's normal to use carddav or other synced address books these days, and to want one such as default. Getting rid of the extra clicks when adding contacts would be a nice enhancement to Thunderbird.

In other words: I would like to see this feature implemented!

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

If you're primarily using an online (CardDAV) address book, you probably want this.

Comment 8

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Having a default address book does seem like pretty low hanging fruit...

Comment 9

[Philipp Schlesinger]

Solving that in combination with related bug #1815202 (seems low hanging and as well) would be great.

Comment 10

[bugzilla]

I just created an account only to say that this is super annoying and has led to multiple situations where I was looking for a contact while I was out (e.g. on my mobile) to only find out when I came back to my computer that the contact was added to "Personal Address Book" that I don't need (instead of the CARDDAV address book that I always use).

Comment 12

[zoot]

This bug is the result of the merging of so many identical bug reports regarding an issue of significant frustration, yet 4 years later, it remains.

I honestly don't understand how significant UX bugs like this are put on the back-burner for so long.

It's these significantly annoying bugs which have a more detrimental effect on user opinion of software, than buggy shiny new features.