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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Addressbook - link to advance contacts ?
From:       Adriaan de Groot <adridg () cs ! kun ! nl>
Date:       2002-06-12 8:10:08
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On Wednesday 12 June 2002 08:50, Bryan Brunton wrote:
> We all like alternatives right?  That's what KDE is about.  I really see
> nothing wrong with providing an alternative so when the user clicks on that
> little addressbook icon in KMail an alternative addressbook can be
> launched.  That is all that I would like to see happen.
>
> Why this insistence on a libkabc straight jacket?

One interface to rule them
One interface to find them
One interface to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them.

Because it's the interface we have chosen. There's work being done on multiple 
addressbook resources (backends) and on different views (frontends). You can 
latch onto that if you want.


> If I can go into KControl and under "Preferred Email Client" enter an
> executable of my choice so that something besides KMail launches, then
> surely there is nothing wrong with adding the ability to enter a "Preferred
> Address Book" option?

Not much as far as I'm concerned. But having three addressbook frontends in 
the past meant that there was a vast confusion on the UI front what did what, 
and the programmer's interface was unfortunately not very standardized. Now 
there's libkabc and it _is_ the interface. User choice good. Programmer 
having to support every interface ever invented bad. 



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