Hello, Address book is a topic close to my heard, probably because it is one if the major issues I find on modern free desktops.
If you stay with GNOME and KDE, each of them has a different incompatible solution, and I don't like that. Everyone already managed to agree on some others parts of the desktop, but not the address book :( I think what we need is a standard dBUS API that could easily implemented by any address book program/server, and a way to start the preferred address book when an application needs to access it. I heard that dBUS was already able to start a service on demand, and I just wonder if it is possible to make it start the preferred address book (and not just the default one). Knowing which application can open a file (given its mime type) according to the user likings is/will be done with the MIME Actions spec <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-actions-spec>. I haven't read it yet, but I wonder if there is a way to expand it so it can not only match an application for a mime type, but also match an application for any abstract type. In this case, it would match an address book dBUS server. But it could also be used to identify a preferred web browser, or text editor ... But I think it is a problem discussed in a recent thread, so I'll stop here. Well, these are my thoughts, hope they may be useful. Thanks Mildred -- Mildred Ki'lya E-Mail: mildred593(at)online.fr Site: <http://mildred632.free.fr/> XMPP: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (GoogleTalk, Jabber) GPG: 197C A7E6 645B 4299 6D37 684B 6F9D A8D6 [9A7D 2E2B] _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
