[Kde-pim] Proposal for a new pim application

[Christian Mollekopf]

On Wednesday 21 October 2009 13:19:40 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2009-10-21, Christian Mollekopf wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 October 2009 12:39:55 you wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 21 October 2009 11:21:10 Christian Mollekopf wrote:
> > > > I'm not yet quite sure if i got the concepts correctly, but as i
> > > > understand it, i would get all mails, existing todos, events (as soon
> > > > as korganizer is ported to akonadi), from akonadi. While for
> > > > presentation of the stored data (filtering), and all the tagging
> > > > functionality nepomuk should be used.
> > > >
> > > > KJots seems to be bound to the idea of folders and files, which is
> > > > pretty exactly NOT what i want, although i heard of plans to move it
> > > > as well to nepomuk (so i'm of course open to work together also
> > > > there).
> > >
> > > This sounds like it's a combination or similar to Basket with some
> > > elements of KJots or KNotes in there too.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Basket goes into a similar direction, but looks a bit too standalone for
> >  me, while the new application would add little extra features but is
> > more or less just a wrapper around existing things.
> 
> While I haven't used Basket myself, I immediately though of it since what I
> heard about it sounds just way to similar.
> 
> I don't get that "bit too standalone" in your paragraph above. Isn't your
>  idea also to have a specialized application and integrate with others on
>  the data level?

I had a closer look at basket, and noticed that it has indeed a very similar 
idea, but the representation of the data is more or less the same as kjots (a 
tree view). This can be now overcome with nepomuk (i believe).

Further i believe we need some common backend (like akonadi) to share the 
collected and generated data between the pim applications (kmail, 
kjots/newapp, kcalendar, kaddressbook)

The feeling that it was a standalone application is, because it is still a kde 
3.5 application, and according to the website the development stopped there, 
and the project is dead since one year.

I believe anyway this would endup in a more or less complete rewrite (porting 
to kde4, akonadi and adjusting everything which is needed), so i would rather 
start completely over.

Anyway, i will forward this thread to the basket mailinglist to see if we find 
some interested people.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin
> 
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