Re: vcard-integration for gnome

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

Stop reinventing the wheel.  The contacts management infrastructure
already exists in evolution.  Just refactor it into a common API that
evolution itself could use to do its contacts.  It would be great if a
similar thing could happen with the calendar support.  Shouldn't
clicking on a date in the calendar popup on the clock interact with the
calendaring program in some way?  Shouldn't events show up in bold on
there just like they do in evolution?

-Rob

On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 16:06, Guido Schimmels wrote:
> Am 20.11.2003 18:54:11 schrieb(en) Darko Obradovic:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > First: I'm not sure if I'm addressing the correct list, but this  
> > message certainly aims towards desktop development and I found no  
> > better alternative.
> > 
> > Using gnome2 since its beginning, I very much like the direction it's  
> > heading towards, and noticed one bigger issue: PIM. gnome-pim  
> > obviously didn't get the port to gnome2, and by now evolution took  
> > that over in a way, but mostly for calendar-stuff only imho.
> 
> I've been missing a stand-alone contact manager too, so I started to  
> work on one last month. But it is written for the ROX-Desktop, which is  
> based on Gnome technology, but it's a desktop shell of its own.
> I would however be willing to maintain a Gnome-HIG compliant version in  
> parallel, if there was enough interest. It's a small app and will stay  
> that way, so that wouldn't be a big deal.
> 
> As for "architecture". Heaven, you people always think way too  
> complicated. Currently my application stores all contacts as seperate  
> vcards into ~/Contacts. Create a ContactsPath gconf-key, so you can  
> include different sources, and you have your "architecture".
> 
> I plan to submit a patch for Balsa. Currently Balsa expects vcards as  
> one big chunk only. You can't import a whole folder. I don't know how  
> evolution handles that. I guess it's the same problem there.
> 
> Here is my "Contacts" app:
> http://roxos.sunsite.dk/dev-contrib/guido/Contacts/
> 
> (click on AppRun inside, to launch it, if you are not using ROX-Filer)
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