From kde-devel  Sat Apr 14 14:38:38 2001
From: Shawn Gordon <shawn () thekompany ! com>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 14:38:38 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: kab and Aethera and Kapital
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At 08:59 PM 4/13/2001, you wrote:
>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

There's no reason why it couldn't

>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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Regards,

Shawn Gordon
President
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