[Kde-pim] GSoC 2014- Active Mail

[Kevin Krammer]

On Sunday, 2014-03-16, 12:40:59, Michael Bohlender wrote:
> > Michael told me that there is much work in the account configuration area.
> > Can you please tell me what all work needs to be done in that area?
> > I would like to work on the UI as well.
> 
> App settings in Plasma Active live in the settings app and not only in the
> app UI. Have a look at this blog post[1] and its links.
> 
> Like for every GSoC project around kontact touch I suggest two parts:
> 
> 1) Expose the functionality as a qml import
> 
> 2) Write a UI on top of said API
> 
> In this case, the UI should be written as a module for the settings app.
> It is up to you, to decide, what features/settings you want to cover with
> your GSoC project. Just take a look at the current settings and provide us
> with a list of the things you plan to support.

As for anything that touches accounts I would also recommend to have a look at 
web accounts [1].

I think that the long term goal is to switch to using web accounts as our 
primary account configuration interface.

Cheers,
Kevin

[1] http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Workspace/WebAccounts
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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