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Rubrica is an address book for Gnome environment. It was born as programming exercies during my gtk+/gnome library studies.

Rubrica is Free Software (Open Source) it is released under the terms of GPL (see COPYING file for more details).

It is copyright 2000-2004 by Nicola Fragale <nicolafragale@libero.it> You can find last release at: http://digilander.libero.it/nfragale

Rubrica is hosted on Freshmeat, where you can subscrive to update notification.

Features

• more addressbooks can be opened at the same time

  User can Cut, copy and paste addresses from an addressbook to another

• file format, import/export

  Rubrica's file format is xml.

  • Import Rubrica can import addresses from: GnomeCard Kde addressbook VCard Netscape csv Mozilla csv
  • Export Rubrica can export addresses to HTML text VCard
• Balsa and KMail successfully opened the addressbooks exported to VCard
• managed data

  Data that you can store about contact, using rubrica are:

  • Personal data: first name, middle name, last name name prefix, title, profession, birthday
  • Address: street, street number, city, zip code province, state, country
  • Net: web urls (unlimited number) emails (unlimited number)
  • Telephone: telephone numbers (unlimited number) and telephone type (home, work, fax,...)
  • Company infos: (company where contact works) company name, street, street number, zip code, city, province, country web page, email operator, fax, green, customer care notes
  • job: (contact role in company) assigment organization, department, sub department secretary name, secretary phone
  • Notes spouse name, spouse birthday, marriage anniversary (if contact is married) children notes (if contact has got children) hobbies public key other notes
• preview

  user can have a preview of addressbook before open it

• dictionary

  User can customize a dictionary. By default user can choose an Italian or English dictionary. Dictionary is related to managed data field. For examples: you can translate "first name" in your language. Now the translation is used only in preview, where user can see: "first name translation" the_first_name, etc. It is planned to use this feature into the html export, so user can have an addressbook html list in his native (or preferred) language. Look at example under doc directory.

• GUI, navigation tools

  Rubrica GUI has two main window, in the left one rubrica shows all addresses contained in addressbook, while in the rigth one shows data contained in the selected address.

                four buttons are available for navigation. first (show the 
                first card in addressbook), last (show the last card in 
                addressbook), next (show the next card) and prev (show the 
                previous)

                It is available a search tool. You can search a card by first 
                name, last name, country, city, email, web urls, and more

        - Supported Localization
                at this time (version 0.9.9) the supported languages are:
                (see CREDITS for the translators list)
                * Italian
                * English
                * French
                * Brazilian
                * Russian
                * Japanese
                * Spanish
                * German
                * Bulgarian
                * Slovak

                hope other will be added, I need your help.

        Rubrica needs those libraries: 
                * libxml2 
                * GConf2
                * python2 (only to run the export scripts from shell), 
                * and naturally Gtk+ and Gnome libraries

New Features:

        Now I'm working on this new features:
        - Native glade interface
                I'm moving all gui to glade xml file format
                The new interfaces have been designed according to HIG
                (Human Guideline Inteface)

        - Account form
                From user view: user will be able to manage a list of accounts 
                (a service (url) he joined, his login/password
                a description of the service)
                From administrator view: He can manage users that joined 
                a service. Their url, email, login/password to the service
                
        - New file format. 
                New rubrica's file will store the file type 
                (AddressBook type or Account Type) a rank field is added 
                to Card description, an id is added to Card

        - Fonts and colours
                User will be able to choose data fonts and colours
                (a font/colour for header and field and 
                a font/colour for displayed data)

        - clickable uri
                email and web url, when clicked will launch mozilla 
                (mailer and browser)

        - support to cryptograpy

Rubrica's Review:

• Rubrica has been reviewed by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Gnome Desktop. Read review at: http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1342
• Rubrica has been reviewed on Unixreview.com as Tool of the month (april 2003), by Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier. Read review at: http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=7932/ur0304c/
• Rubrica has been reviewed on Linux Magazine Germany (issue 17 february 2002) Read review at: http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/17/G-tools.pdf
• Rubrica has been reviewed on Linux Magazine Japan (may 2003). Read review (article get with a scanner, in japanese) on my home page