[Kolab-devel] RFC: "gender" field in contacts

[Mike Gabriel]

hi thomas et al.,

Quoting Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch at intra2net.com>:

> Hello together,
>
> during tests of the Kolab driver for horde's contact manager (turba)
> I've noticed the "gender" field is somewhat unspecific. The kolab format
> documentation defines it as
>
> "<gender>(string, default empty)</gender>"
> (http://www.kolab.org/doc/kolabformat-2.0rc5-html/c266.html)
>
> Turba's Kolab driver writes out "0" for male and "1" for female.
> Outlook uses "0" for unspecified, "1" for female and "2" for male.
> Kontact doesn't seem to have the gender field (by default).
> (or is there a field somewhere hidden I've just overlooked?)
>
> Personally I like the way with 0=>unspecified, 1=>female and so on.
>
> What about making this the standard instead of a messy string field?
> Does any known client write strings in there?
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas

with my (quite recent) horde/turba-cvs version, male and female  
settings in the contacts tab behave differently:

   o setting a person to female -> viewing the contact info shows female
   o setting a person to male -> viewing the contact info shows "unspecified"

maybe i find some time to debug this down and add a ticket to the  
horde bugtracker including a patch...

best,
mike

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