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

[Will Stephenson]

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?

Will

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