On Sat, 12 May 2001, Matthias Elter wrote:
> On Saturday 12 May 2001 00:19, Don Sanders wrote:
> > I'm fine with this change. (Moving abbrowser into kdebase and making it the
> > default addressbook in KMail).

Excellent! There's apps that would like to rely on abbrowser but that have
troubles now because abbrowser is not-necessarily-included.

> > Some related points of minor importance:
> > abbrowser is a dumb name, I'm ok with renaming it (k)addressbook or
> > something.
> Good idea.
Well what's in a name? In any case if the name change implies a change in
the DCOPObject name I'd like to hear about it, since KPilot does a lot of
DCOP with abbrowser in an effort to sync the Palm Pilot address book w/
the KDE address book. [why not use the kab backend, you ask? I dunno]

> > I plan to add support for 'distribution lists' and 'nicknames' at some
> > point in time, once I get around to figuring out exactly how these things
> > should work.
> Distribution lists? Do you mean some kind of grouping contacts?
Most likely. You might want to discuss some of this w/ Greg Stern (he's
posted to kde-devel a few times) -- he's delved fairly deep into the
abbrowser code to do the KPilot sync stuff and he has fairly clear ideas
on what things should be added to make abbrowser truly useful.

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