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

[Will Stephenson]

On Monday 29 March 2010 02:48:42 Maciek Zarzycki wrote:
> > I am not sure I understand this correctly.
> > How would the framework know what do list and what does "files" mean in
> > this context? Could you describe an example, e.g. how this would look
> > like when importing from KMail or Evolution?
> 
> The idea of contexts is very simple. Lets assume that we have an
> 'Evolution'  plugin which has following actions:
> * import messages - context = kmail
> * import account settings - context = kmail
> * import contacts - context = address_book
> 
> When ran from KMail, the dialog would know its context is 'kmail' and
> would  only show 'import messages' and 'import account settings'. If the
> dialog was ran from Kontact instead, its context would contain both
> 'kmail' and 'address_book' and therefore it would display all three
> actions.

Sounds good, especially the 'combined context' approach to allow the user to 
backup everything without stepping through each Kontact component to back up 
locally.

Will
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