Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Re: Common address book (Brian Thompson)

[Jan Schampera <jan schampera web de>]

On Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:08:16 -0400
Brian Thompson <brian eng wayne edu> wrote:

> >Please choose a), b) or c) :
> My vote is definitely for (a) as long as it 
> doesn't require that those other applications 
> actually be installed. I'm really looking 
> forward to the Win32 port of Ekiga and I'm not 
> sure what sorts of portability issues having 
> a common addressbook brings up. 

In the case of Ekiga, it doesn't require an application installed.
Evolution-Data-Server is some kind of "backend" for that. Independant
of Evolution (the application) itself.
The windows version (or the non-GNOME version) has a real private local
addressbook, as all that stuff is stored in the configuration file for
Ekiga.

> locally one way or another. The search order
> should also be such that the personal addressbook
> gets searched first and the LDAP directory gets
> searched second. That way irrelevant LDAP
> entries can be overriden by adding entries to
> the local addressbook. This also saves traffic
> hits on the LDAP directory; in the event the
> contact is first found locally a LDAP search
> isn't necessary. 

Define "irrelevant entries". The search function searches substrings.
Your approach would mean, if "Jon" is searched, and "Jon Doe" is in
local addressbook, then "Jon Postel" in the LDAP doesn't need to be
searched. Or I misunderstood you.

Also, the search traffic is the same. One LDAP query returns all data
in one big stream. The LDAP server filters due to a search
specification, of course. But still, the decision "matches my search,
but irrelevant" can only be made locally (and thus needs the traffic).

Thanks for your thoughts (also the part I didn't quote). Ideas are
welcome!

J.

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