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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] imip and storage of calendar date
From:       Matthias Kalle Dalheimer <kalle () klaralvdalens-datakonsult ! se>
Date:       2002-09-12 9:59:53
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On Thursday 12 September 2002 11.47, Guenter Schwann wrote:
> On Thursday 12 September 2002 11:25, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'll be looking at the question to which extent iMIP can serve as a
> > pattern for the communication between KMail and KOrganizer today, as
> > well as how calendar data can be saved via KMail on an IMAP server. If
> > you have any thoughts/designs/code already, I would appreciate your
> > comments a lot.
>
> As I suggested on the kroupware-list, I'd make a new backend. And
> Jan-Pascal wrote how to do do this best
> (http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-pim&m=103181328709574&w=2).
> Loading a calendar (in an IMAP-folder) via IMIP-KIOslave shouldn't be a
> problem. But it does not work for offline-mode :-(
> So the IMAP-offline-support is either done in an separat layer (between
> IMAP-KIOslave and KMail / KOrganizer).
> Or KOrganizer uses KMail with a new interface (list / get / put / delete
> "calendars"). Maybe DCOP can be used for this?
>
> KMail does only need a very small interface to KOrganizer I think (getting
> specific events, adding new events, updating events, deleting events).
> Maybe DCOP can be used for this?

We thought about using DCOP, but are afraid that it is doesn't scale for large 
amounts of data. Think of a meeting with several hundred participants! But it 
is clearly something that I'll look into.

Thanks!

Kalle

-- 
Matthias Kalle Dalheimer
President&CEO/VD
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB
Platform-independent software solutions
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