Contacts CardDav sync

WildEnte

So why, the hell, shouldn't we use our contacts with Vivaldi Desktop
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Isn't it a nonsense?

No not nonsense and also not the hell. Contacts management has not been worked on at all so far - mail and calendar (and contacts) are in Beta. Right now what is required is getting Labels to work right, making sure Mail search is flawless etc. pp. Contacts as they are work well enough to send and receive and find emails. It's a matter of doing the things that are essential before the things that are important. I'm pretty sure (like you just a user myself) CardDav will come for the reasons you mention.

newscpq

We've been seeing a bunch of features that are really unessential (from absurd tab management, to a bunch of absolutely useless Philips coloring schemes, ...) while having the contacts synchronized between our smartphones and mail clients is absolutely crucial to day to day tasks.

Vivaldi development is incredibly slow, compared to what Opera development used to be in the past. This is probably because they have less persons working on the product, but after YEARS of development and years after the release of CardDav support, time should have come to see it implemented.

I consider message tagging, flagging, or whatsoever, absolutely secondary to the biggest priority of using our address books we already use every day, on every call, for every WhatsApp message, in every app, to get it working on Vivaldi, too(!!!).

At the moment Vivaldi is the ONLY app I have that doesn't work with my address book!

Isn't it a shame?

WildEnte

@newscpq so different people have different needs. There are enough people here that don't care at all about mail or contacts to be implemented in the first place but appreciate the "absurd" tab management. I bet CardDav is coming. Give it time.

newscpq

@wildente do you find strange that a smartphone owner wishes to use Vivaldi services (all the services: vivaldi e-mail, vivaldi calendar and vivaldi contacts) on its device?

Vivaldi is already supporting CalDav and CardDav since July, the 8th, of 2020 (https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/48835/caldav-carddav-are-out?_=1651135243236): it's almost two years, but CardDav support is extremely poor and unreliable.

There are tens of posts of users asking a robust support of those technologies, while I've never seen a single post with any request on TAB management, so, maybe, Vivaldi should also listen to its user base and specific requests, shouldn't it?

WildEnte

@newscpq I don't say the request is unreasonable, I want this too and have upvoted. I explained that priorities are subjective. The age of a request is of little meaning - devs need to be paid. Few devs - slower development speed. We need to be patient. I'm happy that we get to be somewhat involved and I feel they listen to us. We can disagree on the priorities, but that doesn't mean anyone is fundamentally against some wish.

danjde

I'm migrating from Seamonkey to Vivaldi and CardDav support is for me critical to getting started with migration.
Now with seamonkey I'm using Sogo Inverse Connector, but its support is at the end. For so I need an alternative.
The opensource software that does the bulk of the work is available just integrate it into Vivaldi-

Thanks

gabupower

I want so much to migrate on vivaldi but carddav is a must to work for me. Please add this!

Denis62

Same for me, this is the only missing feature that keeps me from migrating to Vivaldi.
Thanks in advance to people who will care about it.

Obiwan2208

The best option for me is DAVx5, it synchronises CardDAV and CalDAV accounts with phone's contacts and calendar..

I'm outside of Google's fence, but I think GoogleContacts has support for CardDAV accounts.

On another hand, OneCalendar handles CalDAV accounts directly, means you don't have to sync or use the phone calendar. Just one drawback: in case of multiple calendars all of them will have the same color in free version of OneCalendar

Vorona

Hello!
I need this feature too. It so difficult to integrate vivaldi mail as corporate mail client. Global address book needed. CardDAV very great solution for it.
With this feature M3 will the best of the best browser! )

michaelbehan

Not having this feature is a no-go for me for Vivaldi. I hope it gets added in the near future.

Dancer18

The only drawback in Vivaldi is that contacts are not yet synchronizable, but this is only true for Vivaldi Desktop, which does not yet exchange with a corresponding CardDav server.

On my smartphone I also use DAVx5. I have my contacts on webmail.vivaldi.net, as well as the calendars. With DAVx5 both can be synchronized super well.
For me it is not important at all that the contacts in Vivaldi Desktop can only be edited individually and not synchronized. Why? Because I only need the email addresses in Vivaldi anyway.
Eventually the contacts feature will be upgraded.

By the way, with the help of android aCalendar I can directly display tasks. It is almost the only calendar that can do that.

PaulGWebster

Anyone know if there is any update on carddav?

Also has anyone else noticed that CalDav works a little weird when you have multiple calenders on the same server, that is it duplicates the first added calender rather than add a second one (Also seems VERY slow when you have 4+ calenders)

brianWreaves

~~Another bump for an update on CardDaAV sync progress...~~

Looks like it is now available: https://help.vivaldi.com/services/webmail/web-contacts/

ilyon

I join other people to ask for CardDAV support. I can't for now leave TB for this reason.

Topha

@brianWreaves That's for the webmailer. Not, alas, for the mailclient integrated into the Vivaldi Browser.

elischeetz

I too would find it essential for any mail client to support syncing your contacts and not having any support for CardDAV is a deal breaker for me. I can't beleive Vivaldi has been around for so long and not heard the cries of it's users to implement this essential feature.

Dancer18

@elischeetz The feature should really be established soon.
My workaround: I use vivaldi.net as Cal- and CardDAV server, the synchronization with smartphone works via DAVx5 app. For me it would be a big progress if in Vivaldi desktop whole address books can be imported into contacts. So far it only works manually and individually. Since I don't have many different email contacts, it's not a big deal, but I understand that it's important when you want to import hundreds of mail addresses and can't.

loudermp

I too would like to see a contact mangement and be able to sync external from servers such as Gmail and GMX utilizing carddav.

zvaranka

Unfortunately, this feature is not yet implemented, but you can make contacts manually.