Contacts group rename

[volleyobsession]

Hi, I founded a bug in Contacts group rename. If you rename a group in Thunderbid it will not be renamed in gmail.
So, the syncronization go in error

I hope it's useful

[Josh Geenen]

Hello,

Were you trying to rename a group that you created, or one of Google's system groups (groups that it made for you)?

gContactSync allows you to rename any groups that Google does, which means you cannot rename the system groups: "My Contacts", "Family", "Friends", or "Coworkers".  I specifically wrote the backend to break before trying to rename or delete the group, but forgot to prevent it from getting that far.

I can detect system groups, so I could ignore the change or change it back to its original name. If I ignore it then I fear there will be bugs filed saying renaming groups doesn't work, but if I change the name back that will also result in bug reports.

I am reluctant to put any new dialogs or preferences explaining that you cannot change system groups because gContactSync 0.2 was already translated into one language and it looks like a few other localizations may be in progress.  I could at least add a hidden preference and put it in the GUI for version 0.3.

I filed Bug 21002 for the technical details and my progress.

EDIT: If you click on the group in Gmail it should explain the purpose of the group in your native language.

Thanks,

Josh

[volleyobsession]

thank you for your replay. I tryed to rename a personal group, not Google's system group

bye

[Josh Geenen]

Ok, thanks for letting me know.  I haven't had any problems renaming mailing lists and seeing Gmail get updated.  Would you mind sending me the log after you enable Verbose logging in the preferences?

To enable verbose logging go to gContactSync -> Preferences and on the "Interface" tab check "Enable verbose logging"
You can view the log by clicking on the status bar text in the bottom right corner (where it probably says "Synchronizing..." for you).
Copy and paste that into this form.

Thanks,

Josh

[LaPogne]

I notice problems with Google groups not created or renamed.
But apparently, the problems was caused because i use the GMail web interface in the same time as the gContactSync extension.
Exept this, everything seems to work fine !

[Josh Geenen]

If you are signed into Gmail when making changes in Thunderbird you should be fine.  If you edit the same contact or group in Gmail and Thunderbird between synchronizations then one should overwrite the other.
Please note that you cannot rename or delete Coworkers, Family, Friends, or the My Contacts lists in Thunderbird because Gmail doesn't allow those to be modified.

I can create and renames normal lists/groups in Gmail or Thunderbird (2 or 3) and see the changes reflected in the others, even when changing one group in Gmail and a different list in Thunderbird.  Could you follow the steps in my previous post if you can make that happen again?

Josh

[Josh Geenen]

There was a problem with 0.2.3 when renaming or creating groups with verbose logging disabled that has been fixed in 0.2.4.  The newest version is on addons.mozilla.org.  Thanks for letting me know about the problem.