[Kde-pim] Kde-pim identities

[Gaffer.]

Hi ingo,

On Sunday 27 July 2008 18:52, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Sunday 27 July 2008, Gaffer. wrote:
> > On Sunday 27 July 2008 15:39, Pier-Olivier Thibault wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > While I browsed akonadi's, kmail's and mailody's source code, I
> > > found outr that the identityManager was used to control the
> > > identities throughout the kde-pim applications.
> > >
> > > While IdentityManager does a great job at managing identities,
> > > I think we could use identities on a larger scale where Akonadi
> > > would probably be more suited for this kind of mission.
>
> No, it is not. Akonadi is no storage. Akonadi is a cache and a
> protocol for accessing PIM-related information. What you want to do
> is best done with Nepomuk.
>
> > > Identities could be integrated to users more tightly to provide
> > > more featues for the user. I know that right now the identities
> > > are only e-mail's related but I think creating a resource to
> > > akonadi with identities. This way, we could gather more
> > > information about the user.
> >
> > I, and I think many users would be entirely against the
> > collection of information about users for what ever reason !
>
> I think you are misunderstanding. The information gathered by KDE
> would only be available to the user the information belongs to and
> it would only be used to give you a better user experience.

I'm fine with that !  I would strongly object to making it publicly 
accessible !

> > > We could gather information about the Wallpapers history,
> > > plasma widget the most used.
>
> How is this related to identities?
>
> > > The people to which this identity sends the most email to.
>
> This is clearly a task for Nepomuk.
>
> > > Integrating it as a resource could give other possibility too.
> > > When you're in KDM switch for user we could have the same
> > > function as WinXP that shows how many e-mails have not been
> > > read before the user log on, How many contacts are online on
> > > his IM protocol he is using, etc.
>
> I agree with Derrick, that this would be a breach of privacy. This
> information is of no concern for anybody but me and therefore it
> must only be shown to me. FWIW, I hate this WinXP feature.
>
>
> Regards,
> Ingo

-- 
Best Regards:
             Derrick.
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