[Kde-pim] Contact aggregation

[Dario Freddi]

2012/1/11 Martin Klapetek <martin.klapetek at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:00, David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> My concerns with Pimo:Person (or equivalents) in KDE Telepathy is that
>> no-one else is using it or appears to be moving towards it.
>>
>> We're only going this route to help feed our data to other
>> applications, we don't exactly need it ourselves, we could do contact
>> aggregation with a simple text file if we're the only people using it.
>
>
>
> Exactly. And for that I'm a bit disappointed that so far it was only the KDE
> Telepathy team discussing this across three mailing lists, but not a single
> message from PIM (except Christian's) or perhaps even Plasma Active guys :/

I agree, this is not something which should happen. I am including
plasma-devel in the discussion now to see if some Active developer can
voice his opinions on that.

>
>
>> People keep saying "it only works if everyone uses it", normally as an
>> argument for pushing this nepomuk side, but it also works the other
>> way. I don't want to be left out in the cold on our own maintaining an
>> over complicated library which isn't benefiting anyone.
>>
>> Realistically either we (or rather Martin :-P) need to commit to
>> switching to using Pimo:Person everywhere, i.e a brand new
>> KAddressbook, updated KMail etc. rather than using Akonadi directly or
>> this entire thing is just a completely pointless exercise.
>
>
> That is absolutely true. But obviously I can't do it alone and should PIM
> people not be interested, there's not much point doing it at all, because
> we'd end up with two incompatible contact sources/storages, confused users
> and raging comments everywhere.
>
> --
> Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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