[Kde-pim] Kde-pim identities

[Mike Arthur]

On Sunday 27 July 2008 17:15:16 Gaffer. wrote:
> > 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 !
You do realise this information is already available if you have access rights 
to a users account?

> > I have already started playing with a new resource that could use
> > Identity on a larger scale. Before keeping up with the idea, I
> > would need some advice.
> What you are advocating is one of the reasons that people are dumping
> M$ software.  Users do not want to be spied upon in any way shape or
> form !   If this is the case then you are making a rod for your own
> back and a reason not to use Linux !
I fail to see how an option to display how many unread emails someone has on 
the login screen is "spying".

I understand that you may disagree with the idea, that's fine but implying 
that other people wouldn't want this feature based on your (in my opinion) 
over-the-top privacy angle is not really a fair discussion of the idea. I 
notice that you don't run your own email server. Do you trust Tesco to not 
read all your emails? They are perfectly capable of doing so and you've 
probably agreed that this is ok. Did you read their privacy policy fully? I 
fail to see how this would be better than local data-collection for local 
users.

Personally, I think this would be a great idea and I welcome more identity 
integration and data collection between applications to be more useful for 
me.

-- 
Cheers,
Mike Arthur
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