[Kde-pim] Akonadi design questions

[Volker Krause]

On Thursday 14 June 2007 21:45:30 Christian Schaarschmidt wrote:
> > IIRC everyone with a svn account has enough access rights to add products
> > and components. Having Akonadi in there will be needed sooner or later
> > anyway.
>
> not everyone ;-)

ok, I've added an "Akonadi" product with "libakonadi" and "server" components.
You also should now be able to add and edit components.

> > > maybe a topic to be discussed with the other pim-guys at aKademy ?
> > > they might get "angry" if we start "poluting" bugs.kde.org with TODOs.
> >
> > It's not like bugs.kde.org would be especially clean in the PIM area
> > currently though ;-)
> > Will you be at aKademy? All the design stuff below is a lot easier
> > discussed in person with a sheet of paper or a whiteboard to draw on ;-)
>
> I will not be at aKademy.
> I agree explaining design is much easier with a whiteboard around. ;-)
> I think I have enough information for now and need some time to put this
> into the docs. I am thinking about a "Vision & Future Development" page
> which will, of course, have overlap with the todo list ... I'll try to come
> up with a solution that makes sense ...
>
> > >   with leazy loading only envelops are loaded into akonadi. strigi has
> > > no clue about the content until the complete fetch, hence the user wil
> > > not find new mails. I am not sure if non-IT people will understand the
> > > concequenses of leazy loading. I have no solution for that other than
> > > good help/documentation ... or full load.
> >
> > Yep, that can only be solved by full downloads or server-side search. The
> > same problem existed in KMail and KNode in KDE3 without too much
> > confusion, so I think it's understandable by normal users.
>
> it will be interesting to see how this whole semantic desktop thing will
> integrate with the applications and how it is used.
> For example: "give me everything related to Mexico" .  this will give me
> some pictures, files, etc. but not the emails I have on my IMAP account
> (nepomuk doesn't have information about them). and the search tool will
> have to start akonadi, if its not running, or I wont gain access to already
> downloaded mails ...

I expect Akonadi to be always running, this will be needed for new mail 
notification, event reminders, etc. anyway.

regards
Volker
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