[Kde-pim] Kde-pim identities

[Ingo Klöcker]

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.


> > 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
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