[Kde-pim] Integrating LDAP into contact lookup in a common way

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 22 March 2010, Will Stephenson wrote:
> On Sunday 21 March 2010 23:28:08 Shaheed Haque wrote:
> > The next questions should be which is the preferred lineedit, and
> > which is the preferred search dialog. However, I am beginning to
> > wonder if, given the Akonadi resource, we should not just use this
> > for
> > 
> > all the UI stuff? If we did:
> >         - There seems to be a some missing steps in how "Edit
> > 
> > Completion Order" is handled for lineedits.
> > 
> >          - I assume the "Search for Addresses in Directory" becomes
> > 
> > superflous becuase the base "Select Recipient" dialog could just be
> > enhanced as I originally planned from a UI point of view, but now,
> > the LDAP resource just looks like another address book.
> 
> Was there a strong rationale for having a direct-to-directory-search
> in the UI, bypassing KResources, (and now Akonadi)?  For example,
> because these would mandate making local copies from the LDAP
> database of maybe tens or hundreds of thousands of addresses (into
> Akonadi, and now Nepomuk, as Contacts), with resulting performance
> and I/O costs?
> 
> If so, what do we want to do in future?  Is there/will there be an
> Akonadi way to do a lightweight query passthrough to server side
> search only?

Yes. This is also mandatory for server side searches on IMAP. Akonadi 
does/will support this. Unfortunately, I cannot give you details as I 
know Akonadi only from the outside.


Regards,
Ingo
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