[Kde-pim] Proposal for a new pim application

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Dr. Robert Marmorstein wrote:
> > Nevertheless i think i does not make sense to have both basket and
> > kjots, since they serve a very similar purpose (and with the right
> > interface it should be possible to merge those projects, and server
> > both of them). So I'm also no committed to work on basket only.
>
> I think providing users with choice is almost always a good thing. 
> KJots and BasKet have very different UI goals in mind.  BasKet is
> designed more or less as a drop in replacement for OneNote (which
> I've never actually used, to be honest, but I hear it's pretty
> fancy), while KJots (at least from what I can tell) is designed to be
> more of a simple, fast, and bare-bones interface.
>
> This is the beauty of code reuse, though.  Once we port enough of
> BasKet to Akonadi, we will be able to factor out a lot of stuff into
> a separate framework that ANY notes application can use.  We could
> even have one or more nice "notes plasmoids" that would interface
> with the same data as the standalone applications.  This will reduce
> code duplication and make it easier to maintain both applications.
>
> Sort of like how Mailody and KMail serve different audiences, but
> both share a common mail storage/caching backend (Akonadi).

Not to forget sebas's experimental Lion Mail plasmoid.

I think in the future we will see a plethora of small Akonadi- and/or 
Nepomuk-based applications (which ideally won't be perceived by the 
user as standalone applications) for different PIM-related use cases.


Regards,
Ingo
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