[Kde-pim] KPimPrefs, Common Settings

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Freitag, 14. September 2007 schrieb Allen Winter:
> On Friday 14 September 2007 11:41:27 am Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 14. September 2007 schrieb Tobias Koenig:
> > > > Should the Categories preference also go into kdepimrc?
> > >
> > > Yes, that's something which should be shared between pim applications
> > > as well IMHO.
> >
> > I thought about this a while back, but came to the conclusion that the
> > categories in korganizer and in kaddressbook are different and should not
> > be the same. In KOrganizer you have categories describing properties of
> > events (meeting, lecture, birthday, leisure, business, travel, etc.),
> > while in KAddressbook they categorize persons. Only very few of the
> > categories can actually be used for both (business, private, travel,
> > university, ...), but not calendar categories are simply unsuitable for
> > persons.
>
> Hmm.. 

On the other hand, we also had a user request for common category named...

(BTW, what's really user-unfriendly is that the "Select Category..." buttons 
in korganizer and kaddressbook use different shortcuts! "s" in 
kaddressbook, "g" in korganizer...)

> so the only common setting we know for sure right now is timezone. 
> Maybe identities.
>
> Still, I think this is a useful idea that may come in handy.
>
> Just seems wrong to have non-KOrganizer apps reading a timezone setting
> from korganizerrc.

Absolutely. My non-reaction to the other things meant silent agreement.

Cheers,
Reinhold


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Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
email: reinhold at kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
 * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/
 * K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer
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