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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Regarding SOC
From:       Ismail Onur Filiz <onurf () su ! sabanciuniv ! edu>
Date:       2006-05-04 7:38:52
Message-ID: 200605040038.53604.onurf () su ! sabanciuniv ! edu
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Hi,
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 07:51, Vinay Khaitan wrote:
> 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.

You probably know this, but I couldn't resist the temptation:) You can check 
the website:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmail-api

It might be helpful for the starters, hints, finding people who worked on it 
before. Also note that any change on Gmail side could quickly invalidate your 
efforts, so at least think about maintaining it even after the project ends 
( well, if Google accepts the project, it might be an indication that they do 
not object such efforts, so they might try to keep the api stable:)

Best...

>
> 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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