Mildred pisze: > Hi, > > I wonder if it could be possible to elaborate a standard to let all > applications on current free desktops share the same address book ? > > For example it would permit to share the same contacts between for > example: > - claws-mail > - kopete > - kmail > - evolution > - ... > > Why this is important ? because I don't ant to open my MUA to search > for phone numbers, because I think my jabber client should be > integrated with my address book, ... > > I know that actually KDE have a central address book that can be used by > all KDE applications, but I would like to have this possibility with > all applications and not to be forced in any way. > > For example we could imagine a standard (and extensible) database using > for example LDIF and stored in ~/.local/share/addresses/ And then we > could configure every software to use this database (or not). > > I would like to see the same things with Mails (be able to switch MUA > without loosing all the mails in local folders), but I think it is more > important to start with contacts. Moreover, you don't change your MUA > every day. > > > So what do you think ? > > Maybe my idea of a shared database is not really good, but I don't see > something else. If you have any ideas, please share. > > Also, if a such standard exists, I didn't find it (and it is obviously > not applied), please give me pointers. > > Thanks. > > Mildred. >
This is what the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop is trying to do. A common data format (RDF), a common extensible schema (Nepomuk Contact Ontology), single database with everything (RDF Repository) and a multitude of various applications that do cool stuff integrating mails with contacts with calendar entries (well, maybe not yet :). This is the vision. The reality doesn't look that nice (yet), but the technologies themselves have been designed exactly for this kind of integration so the potential is there. http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/2007/03/22/nco/ Antoni Mylka [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
