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

[Maciek Zarzycki]

Hello,
my name is Maciek Zarzycki and I'm MSc student in computer science. I've been 
willing to get involved with KDE development for some time now and GSoC is a 
great opportunity for this.

As I am using Kontact for my everyday email/calendar/address book tasks I 
thought I might as well try to contribute :). I find the import/export project 
a good place to start. It doesn't look very hard and should allow me to easily 
get to know the code base and structure of KDE PIM applications.

As far as I know, each Kontact component (KMail, KOrganizer, etc.) has it's 
own mechanism for importing/exporting data. Each of them also stores it's 
configuration in KConfig files. The only part I'm not sure about is meta-data 
handling, but I'm sure I can get it with a few tips from you.

I would like to create a generic import/export dialog that can by used by 
Kontact and all its components. I intend to base it on a concept similar to 
systemsettings/KCModule. Each application would provide a plugin specyfying 
types of data (e.g. configuration, emails, calendar entries) and implementing 
import/export logic. The dialog would than use this data over standarized 
interface to present it to the user. This way we would have consistent user 
experience across many KDE PIM applications and we could reuse as much code as 
possible.

Please tell me what you thing about my idea. I am open to all suggestions and 
comments. Please also tell me if I am not clear enough and I will try to 
explain my idea better.

Maciek
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