GNOME-CONTACTS(1)

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✨ GNOME-CONTACTS(1) — the glow-up edition ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for gnome-contacts, part of the GNOME family, and it's genuinely one of the cozier little apps out there. let me walk you through it 🫶

💖 NAME 💖

gnome-contacts — literally just: access and store information about contacts. that's the whole vibe. your people, in one place, slay 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gnome-contacts [OPTION...]

that's it. that's the whole invocation. no weird positional args, no chaos. iconic behavior honestly ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

gnome-contacts is a graphical user interface to access and store information about your contacts. yes bestie, graphical — windows and buttons and little avatar circles, not a terminal gremlin situation 🙈

here's the part that's lowkey the coolest: gnome-contacts uses the folks library to pull together contact information from various sources, including evolution-data-server, your configured GNOME online accounts, etc. so it's not just one address book, it's a whole aggregation moment — the way it gathers your people from everywhere and stitches them into one clean list is giving main character energy 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -?, --help — prints a short help text and then exits. your lil "what does this thing do again" button, zero commitment 🧚
  • -e, --email — show contact with this email address. you point at an email, it pulls up that person's card 💌
  • -i, --individual — show contact with this individual id. same idea, but by their individual id instead of email 🔥
  • -v, --version — show the current version of Contacts. for when you gotta know exactly what you're running, fr fr ⭐
ngl there's not much here to warn you about — it's a tiny, sweet little option list. just remember the options that "show" a contact need a value to go with them, so it's -e something, not just -e on its own 💀

💜 quick vibe check, recap style 💜

  • it's a GUI app for your contacts
  • it lives under the GNOME umbrella
  • it uses folks to mash together sources like evolution-data-server and your configured GNOME online accounts (and etc., the etc. is doing heavy lifting there)
  • four options total: help, email, individual, version. short and sweet, no cap 🍓

and that's the whole page, bestie! this little cutie comes to you courtesy of GNOME — the source line says GNOME, and the manual itself is GNOME-CONTACTS(1), so like... that's the whole footer situation. no dates, no drama, just GNOME being GNOME 🌈💖 go forth and organize your people ✨

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