[Kde-pim] KDEPIM_NEW_DISTRLISTS

[David Faure]

On Thursday 21 February 2008, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> The so called "new" code looked like some hack needed because of the 
> limitation of distribution list handling in KDE3's KABC 

I thought of it has a nice solution instead of hack, but yes, the design was mostly
guided by the fact that I couldn't change KABC indeed.

> and since nobody  
> seemed to be interested in moving this into kdepimlibs I concluded that the 
> workaround wasn't needed any longer if the addressbook/resource could handle 
> distribution lists properly.

I guess that's true.

> Btw, I think a proper composite pattern would need common base for nodes, 
> since IMHO it doesn't make any sense to set e.g. the telephone number of a 
> distribution list.

This is a very good point.

As long as we can put a distlist inside a distlist with your solution too, I guess
it might be better than my solution then.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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