[Kde-pim] GSoC: Easy Import and Export of all PIM data in Kontact

[Kevin Krammer]

On Wednesday, 2010-03-24, Maciek Zarzycki wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 March 2010 00:19:00 you wrote:
> > A generic import/export dialog might be interesting for a lot of KDE
> > applications. I think of Konqueror bookmarks, akregator, kopete,
> > konversation, etc.
> 
> I am just starting coding for KDE so I didn't aim that high, but it sounds
> like a good idea. Do you think I should post it kde-devel?

We had a GSOC project for a general userdata backup/restore application called 
Kamion [1] but work on it has stalled.

While Import/Export are to some extend part of a backup situation, they can go 
way beyond that use case, e.g. importing from a foreign storage format, maybe 
including foreign metadata, account settings, etc.

One of the advantages of doing this for PIM is that all data is (will be) 
accessed through the same API, Akonadi, thus allowing to share more code 
between handlers for specific data types.

We have some code for importing (or rather migrating) data and settings from 
legacy KDE PIM storage methods, but a generalization ideally capable of 
importing all data types and related settings from other PIM suites, e.g 
Evolution, would be a really nice addition to our offerings.

I would be willing to mentor that.

Cheers,
Kevin

[1] http://kamion2.sourceforge.net/
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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