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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] UI abstraction proposal (partially only)
From:       Luis Pedro Coelho <luis_pedro () netcabo ! pt>
Date:       2003-06-04 9:31:40
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Le Mercredi 4 Juin 2003 11:21, Zack Rusin a écrit :
> On Wednesday 04 June 2003 10:33, Luis Pedro Coelho wrote:
> > Le Mercredi 4 Juin 2003 00:36, Ingo Klöcker a écrit :
> > > But that's what the people actually want. They want to keep their
> > > KMail running at their workstation all the time (because it fetches
> > > their mail) and they want to be able to check their mail from a
> > > remote computer via a text UI KMail.
> >
> > I am sorry if this sounds stupid, but isn't that just turning kmail
> > into an IMAP server or similiar only with a different, non-standard,
> > protocol?
>
> That's just like asking why did we add the current DCOP interfaces if
> there are IMAP servers. They are completely unrelated.

Well, the current DCOP interafces are very limited. They were not designed for 
and don't allow one to write a text-based mail client (I think).

What I meant to say is that if kmail-core has powerful enough interfaces, be 
they accessible through DCOP, IMAP or something different, then is kmail-core 
not functionally similiar to an IMAP server from the point of view of those 
UI-apps like the kmail-gui or those text-ui kmail ingo talks about above?

I am not even saying this is a bad thing, it might even make sense to have 
kmail-core export an IMAP like interface to the mailboxes it manages (which 
could even be accessed from a kmail-core in another box, recursivelly).

Disclaimer: my knowledge of IMAP is from an user's point-of-view and having 
once read the RFC.

regards,
- -- 
Luis Pedro Coelho

On user interfaces and languages, see:
http://luispedro.journalspace.com/
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