Re: [Fwd: RE: [Evolution-hackers] making contacs more useful]

[Adam Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

> > > Would the solution be LDAP support for the rest of applications? (
> > > gnomemeeting, instant messaging... ) 
> > We are talking about GNOME apps?  Why not create a CORBA/Bonobo
> > service?  Then applications can use that for contact information, etc...
> > Additional attributes should be definable pretty easily via XML
> > descriptions.  Someone could then create an LDAP backend or sync module
> > without too much trouble.
> Read my other mail. This is exactly what wombat is. There are backends
> for LDAP, local addressbook, Exchange, and SunONE. (At least, I think
> there is some server addressbook stuff in SunONE, it may just be LDAP,
> though. I don't recall specifics.)

Just saw that, sorry.  The documentation on this isn't the greatest, 
but there is an ongoing thread over on the evo-ogo list about how the
architecure relates to creating things like plgins.  It has been
extremely enlightening.

BTW, Evolution is already great - everything just makes it better.