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List:       kopete-devel
Subject:    [Kopete-devel] Address book integration
From:       Will Stephenson <william.stephenson () ncl ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2003-07-10 9:14:15
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Hi Duncan

I see from IRC and a couple of commits that you're making moves towards 
integration/linking with the main KDE addressbook.  I'd be interested to know 
what the plan is, things that I wonder about are:

- mandatory or optional participation in both the Kopete contactlist file and 
kabc.  The last time kabc integration was discussed this was the issue that 
divided Kopete developers as I'm sure you'll remember.

- relationship between Kopete structures and kabc.  I'm guessing metacontacts 
in Kopete <-> kabc entries?

- 2 way integration, for linked records, will we both update kabc as 
metacontact contents change and react if kabc's IM address entries are 
changed outside of Kopete?

- contact metadata - we were talking last night about how to store buddy icons 
in kabc, and we should also have a policy for relating IM obtained contact 
data to that in kabc.  We could limit it to using IM userinfo to populate a 
new kabc entry generated from a metacontact, but since different protocols 
support different sets of user info the mapping could be tricky.  I'm 
interested in this myself as I was augmenting the ICQ userinfo support 
recently.

cheers

Will
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Will Stephenson
IRC: Bille

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