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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Systemusers as Addressbook resource
From:       Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold () kainhofer ! com>
Date:       2005-07-11 12:06:51
Message-ID: 200507111406.54085.reinhold () kainhofer ! com
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On Monday 11 July 2005 14:00, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 04:38:12PM +0200, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> Hi Friedrich,
>
> > How could this be achieved? For one I wonder why noone seems to have ever
> > thought of using one of the first of all addressbooks in the unix world,
> > the entries in passwd (and .plan & .project)?
>
> There was such an resource somewhere in CVS already, but I can't remeber
> where, so I guess it's also outdated ;)

Ian Geiser started something like that, no idea how far he worked on it or if 
it is even available somewhere. You might contct him directly.

> > But does the KAddressbook system support mapping? What if one
> > has some other user already in his private addressbook? How could
> > additional contact information not delivered by the system be stored?
>
> This issue will be solved in KDE 4.0, for KDE 3.5 we should use a
> read-only resource.

The only problem I see is that you'll possibly have lots of duplicates in the 
addressbook (okay, that alreay happens with the svn accounts and the pim 
developer resource anyway).

Cheers,
Reinhold
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