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Subject: Re: [Kde-pim] Sending invitations to Outlook users
From: Allen Winter <winter () kde ! org>
Date: 2007-05-02 21:27:05
Message-ID: 200705021727.05880.winter () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 02 May 2007 12:57:02 pm Michael S. Mikowski wrote:
> As I and perhap 5 others in my company use Kontact with Exchange 2003,
> this would be wonderful!
>
KDE 3.5.7 tagging will happen on 14 May.
If we receive a patch before that time I will make sure it gets
committed for the 3.5.7 release.
> On Tuesday 01 May 2007, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 May 2007 21:50, Jan-Pascal van Best wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I can only say that the patch is necessary when you have to
> > > > communicate with an MS Exchange 200x server. IMHO It does not
> > > > help when you want to communicate with a plain OL without
> > > > Exchange server and still have problems that invitations are only
> > > > seen as attachment (in OL)
> > > >
> > > >> Was there a commit?
> > > >
> > > > I don't think so. Jan-Pascals code works here perfect but a
> > > > config option and a GUI for configuration is missing. As long as
> > > > such a config option is documented the latter is not that
> > > > important ;-)
> > >
> > > We had an ambitious plan for checking all possible client-server
> > > combinations, but that turned out to be way too much work. I second
> > > Thorsten that all that is needed is a config option, and maybe a
> > > GUI. For all people that need to exchange invitations and such with
> > > others in Microsoft-land, it would be very useful!
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if I can find enough round tuits to delve into KDE
> > > config management for this patch, but I will if I can :-)
> >
> > Config management is pretty easy nowadays. All you have to do is add
> > a new entry to kmail.kcfg like the following one:
> > =====
> > <entry name="OutlookCompatibleAttachments" type="Bool">
> > <label>Outlook-compatible attachment naming</label>
> > <whatsthis>Turn this option on to make Outlook ™
> > understand attachment names containing non-English
> > characters</whatsthis>
> > <default>false</default>
> > </entry>
> > =====
> >
> > I suggest to add the new entry to the "Groupware" group.
> >
> > You can access the value of this config key via
> > GlobalSettings::self()->outlookCompatibleAttachments()
> > and set it via
> > GlobalSettings::self()->setOutlookCompatibleAttachments( ... )
> >
> > If you need more information about this I suggest reading the KConfig
> > XT tutorial
> > (http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Using_KConfig_XT).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ingo
>
>
>
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