From kde-devel  Wed Jun 23 01:58:04 1999
From: Cristian Tibirna <ctibirna () total ! net>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 01:58:04 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Mail/News composer proposal
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On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Rik Hemsley wrote:

> We're discussing this on kde-pim and I'm implementing a vCard library.
> kdenonbeta/empath/vCard has a fairly recent version.

1) Why don't I receive anything from kde-pim? (were there any traffic
yesterday?)

2) Did you check korganizer? Preston implemented some vCalendar/vCard(?)
support veeery long time ago.

> The compose widget I've done is pretty simple and flexible (you can choose
> which headers get edited). It also does the external-editor thing. The
> addressbook is accessed by pressing a button at the end of a lineedit. This
> button only appears for header types that are address/mailbox.

Completion feature a la kmail?

> I wish I could write in order.
> Anyway, we're sorting out kab. I think the plan might be to use vCard as the
> internal format. We're going to try to keep the kab API, while possibly either
> dropping the GUI and simply allowing the app to provide, or (IMO a better idea)
> make a decent GUI that's small and uses the XML dialog stuff, possibly allowing
> extensibility of the widget(s).

???? Are you aware of libKAB? It's supposed to provide kab API with *only*
optional GUI (at least Mirko discussed this looong with Mike Pilone and
Preston)

> Once I'm happy with Empath (i.e. I'm using it for normal mail, which might be a
> week or so), I'll finish the vCard parser, and continue ripping up kab
> (apologies, Mirko ;)

Does empath have support for normal mbox? (sorry, it doesn't compile on my
machine)

Cristian