When adding email addys to the contact list it now only allows one at a time?
Prior to last update when you called up an email contact list you could add multiple email addys at one time. Now it takes the enter or click on next line as the ok and exits out. Thus you have to call up the list each time you want to add 1 email addy.
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I take it this is a "Mailing List" in the address book?
I see what you mean about <return>. However, it's bit like any multi-entry form; you have to be cautious about when a return will add a line (in a multi line box where you might type your address) or move you to another box or indeed close the whole form.
How do you add your names to the List? I found that if I use typing then autocompletion, arrow down to select one of the proffered names then return completes the addition of that particular name to the List, and the cursor is waiting in the next line for the next Contact to be added.
Drag and drop seems to work OK. Clicking seems to work OK, and the <tab> button seems useful also in moving to the next field. Thinking about it, I'm starting to think that the <return> key is a bit ambiguous which is probably why I've never used it in the past.
Even down-arrow is ambiguous; it will usually walk me from one entry to the next, but when there is a drop-down list of autocomplete suggestions, it navigates that list instead of walking to the next address box.
Given what we know now, I think if we were to invent computers today, we'd do it quite differently and avoid much of this ambiguity.
That actually does not work. The tab goes to the ok button after the last email addy on file. The down arrow does not work past the last email. Nothing gets to the next open line in the list. What I am doing is opening an address book (contact list) and either typing in an email addy or cutting and pasting an email addy to that list of addys. In the past I could just put in one addy after the other. No longer works as of the last upgrade.
Cutting and pasting? Does that mean the Contact doesn't already exist in your address book?
Adding a new Contact to a Mailing List will also create a minimal address book entry for it, since a Mailing List has no independent existence; it is a subset of the parent address book. So I would create the new Contact, in the address book, then add it to the Mailing List. And I'd probably use type-and-autocomplete, though drag-and-drop feels to me more appropriate than copy/cut-and-paste.
I still can't make it misbehave by clicking on the next line. I still think that hitting <return> is just too nebulous to know what to expect it to do.
I think there is a misunderstanding. I have an address book with multiple contact lists. When you click on the list (not new contact via right click) it opens up the list of email addresses itself as opposed to a new contact form. See image below. That is where I add them. I do not need a contact card as all I get is an email addy from people. That form is where you can now only do one at a time.
But you will get a contact card anyway if you add a new email address directly to a Mailing List. A Mailing List is merely a subset of its parent address book. Check for yourself; I assert that every address entered into a Mailing List will have a corresponding entry in the host address book too. And if you remove the Contact from the address book, it will vanish from any Mailing List in that same address book that also contains it.
So, build the contact card in the address book, then you can drag and drop the new Contact onto the Mailing List, or just start typing it, and autocomplete will find it for you. BTW, did you know you can drop one or more Contacts onto the Mailing List's icon as another way to add them?
The change in the behaviour of the return key is unfortunate. If you think it's in need of improvement then I'd suggest you file a bug.
If you're unhappy about doing this yourself, say so and I'll do it on your behalf.
BTW, clicking on the next line still works for me in both Windows 7 and LMDE (a flavour of Linux).
You are correct that it creates a contact. I knew that but I do not bother doing it that way as I have no other info other than the email. Not sure wht the next line is working for you as I tried clicking on the line and down arrow and they do not do it. I am on Win 7 pro 32b.
I will report the other as a bug.