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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE address book support in kmail
From:       Mirko Sucker <mirko.sucker () unibw-hamburg ! de>
Date:       2000-05-14 9:12:06
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Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On that same saturday it got removed again (by Don Sanders) because it
> introduced about 8 message boxes when kmail started. I moved the templates
> from kdeutil to kdelibs/kab and did some cleanup in kdelibs/kab to get rid of
> the 8 message boxes, so maybe you can try it again :-)

I am really pissed about this behaviour (not yours..., but Dons). The
only reason for this I can imagine is the "not invented here" syndrome.
And this cannot be the way to go in an open source project.

I do not want to spend a saturday evening in programming something
everybody wanted to see it removed the next morning simply because
somebody was pissed he did not do it.

And the messages where quite understandable, it should be a
one-minute-exercise to find why the templates did not exist.

> Yippie... feature request time :-)
> 
> * Could you try to guess the First/Last name from the email-address?

I could, easily. But first it has to be cleared how to proceed. I do not
want to add work again and again that is not appreciated.

> * It would be nice to be able to add the "To", "Cc", etc. fields when you are
> composing a message to the addressbook as well. (Via the RMB menu)

You mean email addresses you typed in manually? Should be easy.

> 
> Did I see it correct that kab still uses STL?

It uses the map class, as QMap was not there when it was written.
Anyway, the scandalous string class that caused all the compilation
problems has been replaced by QStrings etc. So no compilation probs are
known.
--Mirko.

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