Re: SQLite for contacts and relations to Org - Re: contact management in emacs

[Quiliro Ordóñez]

El 2022-10-09 11:59, Jean Louis escribió:
> * Quiliro Ordóñez <quiliro@riseup.net> [2022-10-09 18:22]:
>> El 2022-10-09 05:40, Jean Louis escribió:
>>
>> > But I can as well edit my contacts by using external tools and
>> > exchange information with other software.
>> >
>> > Do you wish to share your contacts? That is easy, one can simple send
>> > the full file to somebody.
>> >
>> > By followed the thought patterns described one shall understand that
>> > contacts may be separated from single mode (Org) and separated from
>> > single software (Emacs) and that it will not minimize or limit you but
>> > rather widen the capacities and usefulness for human.
>>
>> This is a great summary about the use of database to hold information.
>> But it requires experience configuring databases for end-users.
> 
> We speak of what? User experience? We are in Emacs environment, that
> means you run your application either by using mouse click or by M-x
> or key binding.
> 
> In the provided example you as user need nothing else but
> that. Hypothetically basic actions are just add, modify, delete,
> search for contacts. You do that by key binding in Emacs, or by mouse,
> or by M-x
> 
> In the example provided user need do nothing but that. Even the file
> can be automatically stored like in ~/.emacs.d/people.sqlite or
> otherwise configured to be somewhere else.

I agree.  But the end-user did not construct this program.  It was you. 
I coould learn how to install it.  Then, I should teach the end-user to
use it.  But the program was not made or installed by the end-user.  I
might be able to teach the end-user to modify it.  But I doubt it.

What I mean is that end-users must have an easy entry point.  Of course
that ease must not hide innner workings because that would disempower
the end-user.  How do you propose it could be implemented? (if you agree
it should be done this way, of course) 

> I have actually shown to you how it works, so you have to imagine that
> all that may be part of the package. Especially with SQLite databases
> there is nothing to configure.

Not much to do.  Just installing SQLite and then the program you
propose.