278504 - Include geographical and time info

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[boris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

The vCard standard supports geographical info as well as working day and time info.
It would be great to support this and use this info in the composition window
and the mail window. I.e. the selected message could display if and how long the
receiver/sender will be directly reachable. As an extension a worldmap with
daylight info might show the own position and the position of the other(s)
communicator.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




Local information might also be included to update the current position (Typed
in:  "Currently at a conference in San Francisco until ..." or later on via GPS,
etc). Specially in an international environment with many coworkers "on the
move" this would help to solve many dating problems.
Of course it is also interesting for the "Calendar" project!

Comment 1

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

It's not only useful for address book cards, but also for our own vCards (ie in
every account setting, there's the "Edit card" button).

And while we're on that, maybe it'd better include Daylight saving time
information too.  However the worldmap seems to be too demanding.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[boris]

This still is an issue that becomes more interesting as soon the calendar
functions are associated with thunderbird.

Comment 4

[boris]

The more Lightning/Sunbird evolves, the more this issue becomes important...

Comment 5

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does the issue still occur with the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported Thunderbird version 2 is 2.0.0.16)

Comment 6

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Reporter, does the issue still occur with the latest supported 2.0.0.x /
> Shredder trunk nightlies?

I'm fairly sure this is something we've talked about as being wanted, although we'll need to flesh out the details a bit.

Comment 7

[u17130]

Actually I think the bigger issue here is the lack of vcard v3.0 support.  We are missing more than just GEO and TZ, we are missing useful features like LOGO, AGENT, et al.

Not much work on this in a while but seems like a simple enough fix* and given the growth of mobile devices and the prevalence of vcards one would think v3 would have made it into TBird 3.

*No I am not a coder so no idea how simply it really is