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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Regarding SOC
From:       "Vinay Khaitan" <vkhaitan () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-05-03 14:51:51
Message-ID: 56c534770605030751v7ce15cd5gfd3a98c5ebb2d740 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Dear List,

I decided to file for gmail/kmail integration project and possibaly calender
too(if time permits). But I require a mentor for it. Anyone willing to be?
For google calender we have mentor, but for my proposed project, I dont
have.

Personally I think that gmail integration would be tougher than calender
work, because that requires screen-scraping(exactly the understanding of
javascript engine and differential data transfers) and it also requires
perhaps some changes in kmail core too.
Anyone willing to be mentor?

Vinay Khaitan

On 5/3/06, Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold@kainhofer.com> wrote:
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> Hi Vinay,
>
> Am Dienstag, 2. Mai 2006 15:28 schrieb Vinay Khaitan:
> > I have idea of Google PIM technology integration to Kontact/Kmail. There
> is
> > possibility to create IMAP/GMAIL gateway so that kmail is able to use
> gmail
> > just like any other imap server. GMail's POP doesn't have functionality
> > anywhere near to gmail.
>
> AFAIK, this would require factoring and abstracting out the mail account
> handling code in KMail. I'm sure till can tell you more about this (either
> by
> mail or on the irc channel #kontact). That would definitely be something
> that
> KMail needs anyway.
>
> > Then as SOC ideas page suggests, Google Calender.
>
> This can be implemented as a calendar resource, like GroupDAV (e.g.
> kdepim/kresources/lib/ and kdepim/kresources/groupdav/) or groupwise, or
> egroupware. The resource interface is available in libkcal.
>
> I can definitely mentor this project.
>
> > This can go-on to blogger too. I mean complete google integration. Is
> this
> > idea good enough.
>
> It's definitely interesting. All different areas would need to be
> implemented
> as separate plugins/subprojects (kmail gmail account "plugin", gmail
> calendar
> resource, etc.) but might be configured by one wizard (see e.g.
> kdepim/wizards/kolabwizard/ or kdepim/wizards/groupwisewizard/).
>
> For the summer of code, I think that not everything will be  possible in
> the
> relatively short time frame, though.
>
> Cheers,
> Reinhold
>
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> Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
> email: reinhold@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
> * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien,
> http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/
> * K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer
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