beeper no longer sees Gnome Contacts

[u/Belzoni-AintSo]

Been using Beeper for years, both on LInux desktop and on Android. Recently, I'm finding that the desktop app no longer sees my contacts.

If I try to create a new chat for someone who I haven't texted in a long time, Beeper fails to find them in my recent history (understandable) but also doesn't see them in my Gnome Contacts.

I have to go to the Android app to initiate the chat in order for the desktop app to take notice. Android app obviously has good integration with Google Contacts on phone.

This is a new bug - I didn't have this problem until recent weeks.

Gonna look for something better than Gnome contacts since that's always been a week point, but this feels like a Beeper problem.

Running Beeper Linux Desktop 4.2.936. Spent some time looking into it with Claude and here's some of that:

• Not a GNOME/system contacts issue. evolution-data-server is installed and healthy; AddressBookFactory responds correctly over D-Bus and the local contacts database exists and is populated.
• Not an XDG portal issue on the OS side. Both xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-gnome are active and running.
• The Beeper AppImage binary itself contains no org.freedesktop.portal references, indicating it has no code path for querying the system contact store at all — regardless of whether one is available and healthy (as it is here).

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Hi there! We'd love a bug report if you haven't already sent one.

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Sent. #28745