[GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] KDE address book support in Ekiga

[Julien PUYDT <jpuydt free fr>]

Éric Bischoff a écrit :
> A small notice to let you know that I am working on adding support for KDE 
> Address Book (kab) to Ekiga. I already have some early "proof of concept" 
> code working (see screenshot at 
> http://opensource.bureau-cornavin.com/ekiga/screenshot.png).

I know :-)

> KDE Address Book is an application of its own, but it's also a library that is 
> used by most KDE applications (KMail, Kontact, KPilot, Kopete, ...), and also 
> by third-party applications like OpenOffice.org. It can use several 
> "resources" for its addresses: local VCard files, remote LDAP servers, etc.

Nice.

> Before anyone does the remark : YES it would be better if Evolution/GNOME and 
> KDE shared the same address book library. But currently we have to live with 
> this situation...

Indeed.

> There are two issues that currently slow me down a bit:
>
> 1) Ekiga's address book model distinguishes between "local" and "remote" 
> address books. This makes little sense for kab which can transparently use 
> both local and remote resources. In a first time, my code will act as a 
> "local" address book, just like Evolution address book.

I'm refactoring the addressbook ; and I don't like that distinction 
either. I'm still trying to convince Damien and Jan my ideas can fly. I 
think Jan is already beginning to see where I go ; Damien hasn't had the 
time to dive into it.

> 2) KDE address book currently has no field for SIP nor H323 addresses. I am 
> currently trying to contact Will Stephenson (KDE) who added support for Skype 
> addresses to see how we could do that cleanly.

Ok.

> Of course, this functionality will remain optional and require no library for 
> those who can live without it :-).

Ok too. We'll go with a --enable-kde at compile time. Then later on 
we'll see if it's possible to do something at runtime.

> Any suggestion, wish, encouragement, criticism, and/or offer for help is 
> welcome.

* Suggestion: use -devel-list ;-)
* Wish: what you have written will work well with what I have in mind
* Encouragement: I like the idea very much, and appreciate your working 
on ekiga
* Criticism: couldn't you do that either long before or just after the 
re-architecturing? ;-)
* Offer for help: uh... I'm refactoring, and it may help (the api I ask 
from "addressbooks" is much lighter).

Snark on #ekiga