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Problem: Contacts (e.g. boyfriend & girlfriend; or just flatmates) in my address book move house but stay living together. I have to manually update both / all of their addresses.

Solution: Hold a "Co-habiting" link between such people. When the address is changed, KAddressbook (or Kontact) pops up a window:
"The address for Alice has changed. Is Alice still living with Bob? If so, click [button] to update Bob's address as well"


Complexities would come in the "flatmate" situation of more than 1 person linked - multiple windows like the one above would be annoying so I guess there'd have to be thought about the wording.

(At the risk of breaking the "1 idea per post" rule, I think a similar approach could be taken to the "Partner" field, if that's still present in v4.)

usually you solf this with a relational data model. makes no sense in a simple app like kontact in my opinion. you have to change people's data from time to time, to make things more complicated to solve a rather seldom case is humbug.

Yeah but since there's a move towards using Akonadi for KDE PIM apps, isn't this complex functionality going to be there (almost) for free?

This seems like a way to make the extra abilities available to users unobtrusively.

And the use case isn't so rare with my friends at least if you consider it could be expanded to businesses or families, even less so.