[Decibel] Decibel Digest, Vol 18, Issue 3

[Roger Pixley]

I was of the impression that akonadi can mix (or perhaps is planned to
mix) aspects of a contact within a single address book. So I can have
a single contact and have a work number and a home number but mark the
home number as private so that if it's exported the home number stays
with you.
In this case decibel would have to add the information from a tag.
Course I could be wrong and horribly confused :)

I guess you already have the situation where you are at work on
$OTHERCORPOS where you can only use approved programs and you add a
contact there. When you come home you would like the profile looked up
and as much info as can be derived added to Akonadi?

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>  Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:01:29 +0800
>  From: "George Goldberg" <grundleborg at googlemail.com>
>  Subject: [Decibel] Akonadi integration use cases
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>  Hi all,
>
>  I'm working on the akonadi integration for decibel at the moment, and
>  have reached the stage where I need to decide what metadata decibel
>  will store along side addressbook entries in the form of
>  Akonadi::Attributes. I've found this to be just too complicated to
>  "sit down and code", so I am writing some usecases which I will use to
>  design it. The main concern for these usecases is "what is decibel
>  allowed to do to the user's contacts in akonadi?". Please do add any
>  more usecases you can think of, as I will make my design for the data
>  stored based on these, and I don't want to miss out any functionality
>  that should be there. This area is very important to get right
>  otherwise we will have a lot of unhappy users!
>
>  1) Adam has two address-books. One contains his personal contacts, and
>  the other contains his work contacts. Both address-books are cached in
>  Akonadi. Adam is going to use decibel for instant messaging. Many of
>  his personal contacts have IM addresses on file in his address book
>  already. When he adds a new contact with an IM address to his personal
>  address book, he wants it to be added to his IM account's server-side
>  contact list automatically, as he likes to keep in touch with his
>  personal friends by IM. However, he has a habbit of setting his
>  presence message to say rude things about his co-workers, and so it is
>  very important that his work contacts are not in his IM server-side
>  friends list. Due to the fact his work contacts are stored on an LDAP
>  server, other users of that server have added IM addresses to some of
>  the contacts, so he needs a way to tell decibel not to add contacts
>  from his work address-book to his IM server-side friends lists.
>
>  2) Ben has one Address Book with his friends and family in it. He
>  likes to keep in touch with them by IM, and expects that when he adds
>  a new contact with an MSN Messenger address, that contact will be
>  automatically added to his MSN server-side buddies list. However,
>  there are one or two people in his address book, whose IM addresses he
>  has, but he doesn't feel he knows them well enough to add them as IM
>  buddies, so he wants to exclude them from getting added to his IM
>  buddy list by decibel.
>
>  3) Cathy often adds and deletes contacts from her address book. When
>  she does this, she wants the altered contacts to be added and deleted
>  from her IM server-side buddies list as well - even if she is offline
>  at the time when she adds or removes the contact from her address
>  book.
>
>  If you can think of any other use cases, please let me know! (I'm sure
>  I must have missed some)
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>  ---
>  George
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