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Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] the goal of kaplan
From:       Tobias Koenig <tokoe () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-10-16 11:15:00
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:41:18AM +0200, Anders Lund wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 October 2002 01:47, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
Hi,

> > I don't think that this is a problem of the format. You could express
> > everything you want about contacts in vCard. The problem with complex
> > data is that storing this into plain files isn't very efficient, you
> > would need a real database. This is no problem for people really
> > needing that degree of complexity, but for most of the KDE users the
> > address book is just a small and simple app for storing some names
> > associated with emails, phone numbers, mail addresses and maybe a bit
> > more, in most cases probably less.
> 
> I can appreciate that:) For one thing, there is no harm in having slightly 
> more features in it. If they are unused, they make no harm.
The will... The above mentioned features request complexity and complexity
is mostly a synonym for bugs and side-effects...

> > A database backend is certainly not appropriate for a leightweight
> > address book app as KAddressBook should be, so I'm quite sure that the
> > current solution is the right one. We have the standard information
> > written as simple files in the standard vCard format and everything
> > else we can easily add without compromising efficiency for the average
> > user.
> 
> The problem with the text format is that it is inefficient as soon as you
> have more than a few hundred contatcs.
> A typical example is that if categories are a list of string in each contact,
> you can't efficiently use them, and categories proves more value if you have
> more contacts.

> Something a database-based approach would solve.
Rainald is already on implementing a SQL-Resource. Does this remove your
concerns?

Ciao,
Tobias
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