[Kde-pim] Re: GSoC Idea - Integrating with Nepomuk Person and Telepathy

[Will Stephenson]

On Friday 01 April 2011 14:56:36 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 18:37, Volker Krause <vkrause at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hi Martin,
> > 
> > On Sunday 27 March 2011 18:09:01 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > > my name is Martin Klapetek and I've been working with kde-telepathy
> > > team
> > 
> > for
> > 
> > > past few months. The ultimate goal of kde-telepathy team is to get
> > > Telepathy deeply integrated into KDE.
> > > 
> > > Today we discussed some ideas and it came to my mind, that it would be
> > 
> > great
> > 
> > > to have Telepathy integrated with PIM. The main idea is to see the
> > > online status of your contacts inside PIM apps like KAddressBook,
> > > Kontact, KMail etc. and also a possibility to start a chat/video/audio
> > > call over
> > 
> > Telepathy
> > 
> > > (we'll be doing a pre-release of basic Telepathy components soon). With
> > > this idea we came to talk about how it would be possible and George
> > > Goldberg of kde-telepathy hinted, that it was a "dream" to integrate
> > > PIMO:Person into PIM for some time. And the Person class would be just
> > > a great way for integrating the online statuses and the rest of
> > > Telepathy stuff.
> > 
> > yes, that's definitely something we want to have :)
> > 
> > > So the GSoC project would basically include integrating Nepomuk's
> > > PIMO:Person into KDE PIM and then integrating KDE PIM with Telepathy
> > > with the PIMO:Person approach.
> > 
> > well, it's not that easy ;) Here are some things to consider:
> > - currently we create NCO:PersonContacts objects in Nepomuk for every
> > vCard contact, email recipient/sender, event attendee, etc we encounter.
> > These need
> > to be aggregated into PIMO:Person objects. This includes finding
> > NCO:PersonContacts that refer to the same person as well as ignoring
> > entries
> > that are no person at all (spam, mailinglists, etc). Otherwise you'll end
> > up
> > with quite some useless garbage in the addressbook.
> 
> True. I like the Android phones approach here - you can manually merge
> contacts together and make one big contact from all those. The actual
> proposal also recognizes need for some way of merging the contacts,
> especially with the Telepathy ones. Telepathy already makes use of Person,
> so this merger could be simply extended to allow you to merge several
> NCO:PersonContacts into one Person as well as adding a Telepathy account.

The N900 has a similar approach - there is a merge contacts action which 
allows the use to multiple-select from all other contacts.

An automatic merger with manual review would be a great improvement.


Will
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