1771569 - Restore nickname field on contact edit form (avoid dataloss of nick names when migrating from TB91)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect, P1)

Description

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1770844 +++

102.0a1 (2022-05-27) (64-bit), Win10

Regression: No nick name field on the edit contact form.

• Nick name field is very different from display name.
• Nick name field is only known to Thunderbird user, but never publicly exposed when sending like display name.
• Searching for a full unique nick name in recipient autocomplete guarantees the contact of the nick name to be the top match, so if I have thomas8 specified as a nickname for Thomas Duellmann, that will match reliably every time without the need to have thomas8 in the display name.
• We don't want to break users' existing nick names (which would be dataloss).

Urgent as it needs strings.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I think this one would be important to fix.

Comment 2

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

I'm on it!
This depends on bug 1771824 as the display name behavior and positioning will affect the nickname section a bit.

Comment 3

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

Attachment: Bug 1771569 - Restore the nickname field in the new address book. r=darktrojan,henry

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/7be816a9528f
Restore the nickname field in the new address book. r=darktrojan,henry

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Comment on attachment 9280393 [details]
Bug 1771569 - Restore the nickname field in the new address book. r=darktrojan,henry

[Triage Comment]
Approved for beta

Comment 6

[Rob Lemley [:rjl]]

Thunderbird 102.0beta7:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/8c15e38ce065