[Kde-pim] Kde-pim identities

[Pier-Olivier Thibault]

Sorry I'll make things clearer by restating more thoughtfully what my 
main idea is.

1. PIM has evolved so much that now it is not really a separate 
application that manage our PIM but everything you do on a computer is 
based on personal Information: E-mails, IM, IRC, Calendar, wikis, even 
Browsing the Web on most website needs authentification.

2. While the Oses become more and more transparent with PIM data, it 
is clear that we need some sort of resource or management that could 
make all the information available in a very clean and reliable way.

3. Akonadi has proven itself to serve reliably as a storage for PIM data. 
Serving for e-mails, vcard resource, etc.

4. Most of the thing we do while on a computer are using "user" or 
"identity" I know that in some cases (like Kmail) you may need 2 or 3 
different "signature" or "contact information" so that you can use the 
right one depending on who you are communicating with. While those 
are not really identity but contact info (Much like you have a phone 
number at home and one at work. Even though the number are 
different, the person you are reaching is the same) Most of the time, you 
are using the same basic information like your name, your birthday, your 
address, your phone number, etc.

5. Instead of storing and accessing them through different means ( 
KMail, KaddressBook for some info, IdentityManager for some other, even 
KWallet in some areas...) I think it would be easy for any program that 
needs the information to get what's necessary for it to run properly.

6. Managing your PIM in only one place for all your personnal setting 
would also make things more consistent( A bit like IdentityManager that 
is used in Control Center and Kmail ).

7. Obviously these information are only accessible to the user. Another 
user can't gain access of such information( Database on Akonadi resides 
in ~/ so other user doesn't have access... privacy should not be a 
problem here)

8. Maybe Akonadi is not the solution for this matter. Maybe some other 
framework would be more appropriate or maybe a brand new library 
would be more suited for that. My opinion was that Akonadi was the 
right answer, but apparently, I could be wrong.

9. This way, Information could be shared easily with applets, plasmoids, 
and what not. I think this would be great for PIM.

Finally, I honestly don't see any security problem as once you're loggin 
on your user, you usually want to _use_ your personal information... All of 
this would always be only accessible to user and I think that is quite the 
opposite of Nepomuk which tries to take your information to share it with 
others.
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