Comments on: Fast Address book for your Desktop

By: James Selvakumar

James Selvakumar — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:52:53 +0000

Nice article, though I really hate the watermarks. I understand your hardwork behind this article but these watermarks made the screenshots very ugly.

I’m sorry but “gfa” is a open source software and your watermarks made it look like a “shareware” application.

By: deusdiabolus

deusdiabolus — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:48:07 +0000

It bears mentioning that the Pimlico Project’s Contacts software is available through the Synaptic Package Manager, so if you’re running Jaunty just search in there and you’ll find it. (The GFA suggestion is appreciated, nonetheless.)

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:54:49 +0000

So, I typed in sudo aptitude gfa into the terminal, and a bunch of stuff happened, but no gfa in accessories.

How do I get it on?

By: bobmont

bobmont — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:18:04 +0000

I need help in finding a address book in Ubuntu that I can install. I am a user and not a teck, so I need a complete program already made. I at one time used IBM’s Os 2 which was complete and very easy to use. Any help would be greatly appreciated

By: Mathew

Mathew — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:32:45 +0000

http://www.pimlico-project.org/contacts.html

I think pimlico’s contacts project is very interesting. Contacts is a small, lightweight addressbook that uses libebook, part of EDS. This is the same library that GNOME Evolution uses, so all contact data that exists in your Evolution addressbook is accessible via Contacts. Contacts features advanced vCard field type handling and is designed for use on hand-held devices, such as the Nokia 770 or the Sharp Zaurus series of PDAs.

To use, add the relevent line for your distribution to /etc/apt/sources.list and apt-get update.

deb http://debian.o-hand.com etch/
deb http://debian.o-hand.com unstable/

deb http://debian.o-hand.com edgy/
deb http://debian.o-hand.com feisty/
deb http://debian.o-hand.com gutsy/

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:24:00 +0000

Does anyone know a more capable address book app that provides a web frontend as well as LDAP directory backend, and sync to/from Outlook on Windows? It would be great to integrate addresses across phones, Windows, Linux, etc.

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:59:28 +0000

this “fast” address book called gfa, cannot import any address book, cannot export any address record, cannot exchange data with tipical applications (e mail clients, groupware, skype ecc. ecc) using that “fast” address book just means to waste time.

anyway I really appreciate your initiative: find new solutions ad present them to the community… thank you very much for all you are doing for us.

best regards
Alessandro