On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 18:44 +0100, Antoni Mylka wrote: > 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.
Its actually covered by freedesktop XESAM which both tracker and nepomuk will implement. (think of tracker as a cutdown nepomuk without the nasty rdf complexity!) They both have the storage and metadata capability to fulfill this requirement It is as you say a long term move to replace the incumbent stores jamie _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
