On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 22:58 +0200, Damien Sandras wrote: > > > > Evolution or a separate app makes little difference. > > > Perhaps psychological. If we tell to our users "you don't have a local > > > address book in the GnomeMeeting UI, but you can use the GNOME Contacts > > > software to manage your GnomeMeeting contacts", it will be ok. However, > > > if we tell them they have to run and install Evolution to manage their > > > GnomeMeeting contacts, I think they won't accept it. > > > That doesn't disturb me to have our own address book in GM, but I think > > > it would perhaps be better if we were using an external soft, and not > > > only an external backend. > > > > Using the E-D-S would also permit GnomeMeeting to use all the > > datasources E-D-S knows about (via connectors, whatever...). So > > GnomeMeeting could see all the contacts in the corporate groupware > > system. Thats a usability improvement that would tempt me to burst into > > song. > > > > The first step will be LDAP and the contacts part. I'm working on this > since a few evenings ;)
I guess you would need only to support e-d-s API, that's all. You don't need to write code specific to LDAP or local backends. Or did I misunderstood what you meant? cheers _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
