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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Groupware functionnalities
From:       Marc TAIEB <TAIEBMA () e-i ! com>
Date:       2003-10-22 14:53:04
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Thank's for your response and remarks.
I'll try to do this issues, but we have actually a lot of work.

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On Tuesday 21 October 2003 23:54, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 October 2003 17:24, Marc TAIEB wrote:
> > So , I have made some evolutions in korganizer and libkpimexchange to
> > use them in our environement. I have been integrated 2 small bugs
> > that I had recountered in kmail and libkcal.
>
> Hey, that's exactly the stuff we need :-) Seems like you have done parts
> of the kroupware branch merge.
>
> > Modification in libkpimexchange :
> > -  Anonymous connect ( in exchange you can specify that everyone can
> > read her freebusies)
> > -  Setting the calendar URL in ExchangeAccount class
>
> This looks ok to me, but I don't really know the code.
>
> > Modification in korganizer :
> > -  Replace the attendee listview by a kdGanttView
>
> When talking about merging the kroupware branch we came to the
> conclusion that the way the kroupware branch does this isn't
> appropriate for HEAD, because it makes a huge dialog which doesn't fit
> on small screens (The KDE requirement is to run with 800x600 pixels).
> We thought that it might be better to make an own tab only for the
> free-busy view without all the editing buttons and line edits. I
> haven't tried your patch, so I can't judge if this really wou dbe a
> problem. Just mentioning. It shouldn't make the attendee configuration
> more inconvenient for people who don't use free/busy information, by
> the way.
>
> > -  New prefs for customizing the freebusies
> > -  New prefs dialog (copy of kroupware freebusy prefs)
>
> This code can be made much more simple by adding the prefs to
> koprefs_base.kcfg.
>
> > -  New parameter : "If Exchange 2000 Server" In this case we are
> > using libkpimexchange to retrieve freebusy.
>
> I'm a bit hesitant to directly link KOrganizer to the exchange access
> library. This functionality won't be needed by many people, so it might
> be better to put this in a plugin, e.g. the ExchangeResource. Well, to
> make this possible we have to add an API for FreeBusy.
>
> > So that's all. Tell me if you think it is integrable in the head of
> > kde sources or not.
> > I hope this code will be useful for you.
>
> Many thanks for your effort. This code certainly is helpful, but it
> needs some polishing before it can go to HEAD (in addition to the
> already mentioned things the "KDE_CXXFLAGS = -g" has to be removed).
>
> Would you be willing to fix these remaining issues so that we can put it
> into the HEAD branch? If it is meant to be included in the 3.2 release
> this had to happen fairly soon, though.
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