KDE 4: the good, the bad and the broken

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2010-04-29, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 29 April 2010 03:50, Frank Weng (a.k.a. Franklin)

> > As for KDE-pim, I think what the most important thing now would be a
> > complete and easier-to-understand document about akonadi, how to make it
> > startup successfully, its daily use for all kinds of resources like
> > addressbook and birthday or calendars.  I know that there have been
> > already some documents about the frameworks of akonadi, but I still
> > failed to find a document about how to add resources successfully, and
> > how to use it.
> 
> Well, I think that you as a user shouldn't have to use it: the
> applications should do that behind the scenes. Should I pass this
> question on to Anne. who knows more about Akonadi?

The general idea is that application which make use of a certain type of data 
also provide the interface for managing the respective resources.
Provide in this context usually means that they show interface elements that 
are available in the base libraries, i.e. they don't have to implement these 
themselves.

KAddressBook, for example, has an "Add Addressbook" action, but it might make 
sense to complement this with a "Manage Addressbooks" type functionality 
somewhere in the config dialog, e.g. like KMail currently does with accounts.

I also hope the generic managment interface can be returned to the control 
center, just like there is one for KResource based access methods.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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