KDE Developer Calendar and Addressbook

[Allen Winter]

On Sunday 15 April 2007 3:01:45 am Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Saturday 14 April 2007 22:57, Allen Winter wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > Someone must have thought of this before but I'll ask anyway...
> >
> > It would be so nice if we had a KDE developer's calendar (kolab,
> > egroupware, etc) that we could all add to our KOrganizer resources. 
> > And we all had write-access to.
> 
> I played with that resource on kdemail.net for a long time in the PIM 
> group and the prospects are nice. However its unusable for large groups 
> over the internet currently.
> * You need to use dimap or else it gets too slow to startup. DImap is too 
> fragile and we'd loose our data soon.
> * TODOs + addressbook don't work in a multi person environment. Well, 
> technically they do; but from a usability and practicality point of view; 
> they don't.
> The problems include that there is no clear indication who created a new 
> TODO or addressbook entry, and no way to separate your own made items 
> from the others.  This practically means the user can't use the stuff for 
> his own usage anymore.
> 
> This leaves just the option for a small amount of appointments, and I 
> think we should export to ical for that usage. (maybe combined with a 
> cool new stuff entry).
> 
> The best solution here is to fix all those items in korganizer. ;)

I thought the shared calendar and contacts worked well, as long
as kdemail.net was behaving.  Yes, the shared to-do sucked terribly.

Heck, I'd even be happy with a "Calendar in a Remote File" resource.