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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] phpGroupWare
From:       Holger Freyther <freyther () gmx ! net>
Date:       2002-01-23 11:29:01
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Am Mittwoch, 23. Januar 2002 08:39 schrieb Cornelius Schumacher:
> On Tuesday 22 January 2002 16:39, Cuendet JeanEric wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm interested to write a plugin to connect to phpGroupWare from KDE.
>
> It would be great to have something like that.
>
> > The idea is:
> > - bridge phpGroupWare-Notes -> KNotes
> > - bridge phpGroupWare-EMail -> KMail
> > - bridge phpGroupWare-Calendar -> KOrganizer
> > - bridge phpGroupWare-Tasks -> KTasks (name?)
>
> That's also in KOrganizer.
>
> > - bridge phpGroupWare-Adressbook -> KAB
>
> That's now kabc, the new addressbook backend.
>
> > Does the KDE-PIM gurus think that it's possible to do?
>
> It's certainly possible.
>
> > Is there a plugin architecture for providers of PIM data?
>
> There currently is no common plugin architecture for all the apps.
>
> For KOrganizer you have two alternatives:
> 1) Write a KIO slave that accesses the phpGroupware server and converts
> the data to iCalendar, so that KOrganizer can read it. This does not
> require any changes of KOrganizer and works transparently in the
> background. It might be useful to write a plugin for KOrganizer, that
> provides some menu entries to conveniently use the KIO slave without
> having to know about the details of the URL used by the slave.
I really encourage all to write IO-Slaves for these kinds of operations. This 
also makes sure KitchenSync(when it's finished) can use it

regards Holger
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