[Kde-pim] Proposal for a new pim application

[Stephen Kelly]

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.
> 
> I had a look at all of them, and none of them is what i need (although i
> use kjots quite a lot), but of course i agree that we should avoid to
> duplicate any functionality.
> 
> I think with the application i have in mind kjots could be easily
> emulated, by making a treeview of tags. But i seems to me that the code is
> a bit bound to this book/sheet structure atm, so a serious refactoring
> would be needed.

Over the next few weeks I'm porting kjots to Akonadi and removing lots of 
the old code. By the end of it, it will be possible to share data between 
desktop sticky notes and kjots, effectively replacing knotes.

I also want to see what collaboration we can get with semnotes and spoke to 
Laura Dragan at GCDS about it. She wasn't opposed to the idea, but I'm not 
sure she liked the idea of a Akonadi dependency.

If we can get basket on board too that would be a win. By using Akonadi 
Attributes I think we can satisfy the needs of all applications (ordering, 
position on desktop, association in basket) without disrupting the other 
applications.

I have started on the road of using MIME messages as the notes. By using 
that there are obvious ways of getting pictures, sounds etc into the note 
data.

All the best,

Steve. 


> 
> For the whole todolist i anyway wanted to directly interact with
> korganizer todos via akonadi.
> 
> 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.
> 
> KOrganizer should have as primary interface a calendar, while this
> application has one showing information. Behind i really want to share as
> much code as possible (and also the akonadi items for events, todos, ...)
> 
> Thanks for ideas =)
>> 
>> Personally, I'd rather see you improve those applications to allow your
>> workflow (for instance KOrganizer has loads of different workflows
>> already) rather than adding another PIM application that duplicates
>> functionality.
>> 
>> Nice ideas though, good luck with them!
>> 
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