Re: [Evolution-hackers] making contacs more useful

[Joe Shaw <joe ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 17:59, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> As for Instant Messaging, there is code in a branch on cvs that
> adds support for some of the base protocols, so that the Addressbook
> knows what type the main ones are (AIM, ICQ, MSN). However, since
> there can be an arbitrary number of accounts, per user, per IM
> system, and an arbitrary number of supported systems, it makes for
> a daunting task to have this in an addressbook UI, or to put code
> specifically for this stuff in the addressbook itself. As it turns
> out, I am also hacking on an Instant Messenger client that will
> integrate with the evolution addressbook, and calendar. As soon as
> the public API stuff gets merged into HEAD for the addressbook and
> calendar, I will start hacking it to use it.

The branch is ancient and I wouldn't suggest using it as a starting
point for IM/addressbook interaction.  The stuff Nat has done for the
dashboard seems quite a bit more sane and is interoperable with the
vcard extensions Apple did for Mac OS X and iChat.

It's off of http://nat.org/dashboard somewhere.

Joe