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Calls contacts tab shows empty while Contacts has people in it

What problem did you encounter

Calls contacts tab is empty, even though Contacts has people in it.

What is the expected behaviour?

Calls contacts would match design and show contacts.

How to reproduce

  1. Open Calls
  2. Go to contacts tab
  3. see it empty

purism-librem-5-calls-contacts-empty-2019-09-13 purism-librem-5-calls-contacts-values-2019-09-13

Which version of Calls did you encounter the bug in?

  • I compiled it myself. If you compiled Calls from source please provide the git revision via e.g. by running git log -1 --pretty=oneline and pasting the output below.

  • I used the precompiled Debian package (e.g. by running a prebuilt image). Please paste the output of dpkg -s calls below.

purism@pureos:~$ dpkg -s calls
Package: calls
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: comm
Installed-Size: 415
Maintainer: Bob Ham <rah@settrans.net>
Architecture: arm64
Version: 0.0.1~205.gbp974650
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libebook-contacts-1.2-2 (>= 3.16.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.57.2), libgom-1r
Conffiles:
 /etc/xdg/autostart/sm.puri.Calls.desktop 656e549c2c3e7b931a8f37ac739cbc3c
Description: Make and receive PSTN phone calls
 A GTK+ user interface for PSTN phone calls using oFono.
Homepage: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Purism/calls
purism@pureos:~$

What hardware are you running Calls on?

  • amd64 qemu image
  • Librem5 devkit
  • other (please elaborate)