Le August 24, 2006 12:03, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau a écrit : > Hi, > sorry for the cross-post. Please follow up on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Am Donnerstag, 6. Juli 2006 00:25, schrieb Michaël Larouche in reply > > to "Integration with a general contacts framework" on [email protected]: > > I think a Communication BoF would be really needed in Dublin to discuss > > all this matter with Decibel team, our own team in real life and maybe > > KDE PIMs people. > > I just had a look at http://conference2006.kde.org/codingmarathon/bof.php > and so far nobody seems to have registered such a BoF. There is a Bof > on "Collaboration & Web Services" but Josef just told me there > collaboration is meant in terms of doing interactive "talk" via SOAP with a > server, not (human) beings.
I'll be at this one, and you'll be able to meet me before at the airport (check Arrival @ Akademy page). Why I didn't get notified for this one ? ;) > So are you still interested in such a BoF? I am :) Of course I am > I pushed the design of the contact framework a little further, filled quite > some papers on my desktop, and am a little excited of what should be easily > possible with it. The framework will be split in three parts: > For one the successor of kabc, implementing the data/entity part and be > plugged into Akonadi. I though Akonadi goal is to be a KABC boosted on steoroids with more sweet added. > For the second a framework for general services on persons/group of > persons, like status, action and data action, dependant on the (system > specific) properties of these. > For the third there will be a general ui framework, offering some general > purpose widgets to display a person/group (of persons) with built-in > support for displaying (system) state, menus of actions and whatever, using > the other two frameworks. Or adaptors which fill own > menus/actioncollections with possible actions. To be used whereever > persons/groups are used in a system. Like display of file properties, > partners in a chat system, email sender, document author, svn accounts, > etc. > So code to display a person or group would become > Organ *organ = Organs::findOrganBySystem( addressInSystem, "systemid" ); > OrganLabel * label = new OrganLabel( organ ); > label->adaptALittle(); > label->show(); > and get support for everything registered to the service framework by free. > > This way Kopete (and Decibel) projects could concentrate on the > communication/collaboration systems, using the kabc successor to store the > person/group specific data, implementing some service adaptors to plug in > the service framework, and using the ui framework to get support for all > other person specific systems (like action and status for email, homepage, > phone, chat, blog, note, online gallery...) > Oh well, something to present and discuss in a BoF, not a quickly written > e-mail :P > > To get a first idea, just compile and install the experimental (and a > little old) KDE3 version found in trunk/playground/pim/contactsapplet > (which should be rather called contactsframework these days but I hesitated > to move files even more around). The version in svn does not yet have > support for groups and grouping. But e.g. just think what the Kopete > contact list would look like as a kicker applet/extension. > > Sadly I have zero time in the next three weeks, should not even write this > email. :/ > So could anyone of you please try to register such a BoF in case? Thank you > very much. :) > > Does anyone know of peope planning to support concurrent collaborative > editing of documents? They should be invited, too. No that I know of, except the KDevelop SoC like Matt mentioned > Regards > Friedrich > > PS: I gave these contacts framework/libraries the name "Organs" for now, in > case you want to reference to it :P I don't like the name, first thing I think when I read Organs is the musical instrument (I'm a keyboard player). Let me think about it or let's discuss this in Dublin. > _________________________________________ > kopete-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel -- Michaël Larouche KDE developer working on Kopete, Gamefu(KDE), Solid...on dial-up :P -------------------------------------- Website: http://www.tehbisnatch.org/ MSN/Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: irc.freenode.org/DarkShock on #kopete,#solid,#gamefu,#plasma Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ kopete-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kopete-devel
