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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kab and Aethera and Kapital
From:       Mark Pelfrey <mpelfrey () pelfrey ! dyndns ! org>
Date:       2001-04-14 3:59:41
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Hello.

Is there anyway this could also be implemented in KMail?  I'm just getting 
into KDE2 porgramming but I would be glad to help out any way I can.

Mark

On Friday 13 April 2001 01:45 pm, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> #if Shawn Gordon
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We've gotten a lot of requests to share a single address book between
> > Aethera and Kapital and that we also make use of kab as that
> > repository.  This makes a lot of sense, but on a cursory examination of
> > kab, it doesn't have near enough information to support the Kapital
> > address book.  Now before we just jump in and start changing it to suite
> > our needs, I would like to see what the situation is with kab and if what
> > we are talking about would be viewed as a good or bad thing. Thanks!
>
> Sounds like a good thing to me...
>
> I've written large parts of an implementation of my idea for a kab
> replacement, which supports multiple addressbooks, per-addressbook
> user-defined formats and pluggable storage backends. There's only one
> backend in existance at the moment, 'file' - which is concurrent-access
> and NFS safe and seems to work well. An LDAP backend would be easy. Next
> I need to think about the design of the searching interface and decide
> whether I should be interfacing with kdedb or Qt 3's DB stuff for a DB
> backend.
>
> Perhaps we could discuss whether the approach I have taken will be
> suited to the needs of Aethera, Kapital, etc., and if not, how I
> should proceed ?
>
> Rik
>
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