Am 22.11.2003 23:48 schrieb(en) Fred Smith:
Well, it seems that some other group at gnome.org has been working on this type of functionality too, or at least has identified it as something that gnome needs. http://www.gnome.org/bounties/Addressbook.php3 In fact, it seems that someone could make a tidy sum of money for a single, centralized gnome address book system that integrated with evolution, gaim, gnome-meeting, MrProject, and gnome-vfs.
First, that issue certainly was no smart invention by me, but a rather obvious need for gnome. Well, I don't really like the approach of that contest, they prescribe lots of implementation details, especially they act like evo-2.0 already contains the official gnome-addressbook, and then, focusing on gaim for IM... The bad thing about this is that it's obviously quite official, and by offering money, you eliminate alternative ideas/approaches. :(
Perhaps we can take some cues from the KDE people, but in the reverse direction. They integrated KMail, Kalendar, and all the other components into a single PIM application. Couldn't the various Evolution components be placed inside a (bonobo? wombat? i'm not sure which component does what) wrapper that turned them into separate applications?
I think KDE did the right thing. They have a lib for accessing the data, and many apps use it. The "kde-pim"-package is just a collection of these apps+lib, as they do it for alle the other blocks, kde-edu, kde-games and so on. Not sure though.
Darko Obradovic
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