[Bug 146805] New: General "I want to contact person x" workflow

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

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           Summary: General "I want to contact person x" workflow
           Product: kontact
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: arne_bab web de


Version:           Unbekannt (using KDE 3.5.5, Gentoo)
Compiler:          Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.18-gentoo-r6

I often want to just contact a person, regardless of the protocol used. 

At the moment I need to look "Is she online in Kopete?" and if not "Which other ways do I have to reach her?". 

Instead of then havng to switch back to KMail, I'd love to have a general "contact person" workflow with a widget which is as nicely to use as Kopete and does the selecting for me. 

A few ideas I imagine for that: 

* Defining a chain of contact services (Jabber -> ICQ -> IRC -> E-Mail ; It checks, if the first protocol is avaible, f not, it checks the second, then the third ... ). Also per User (or in the case of other KDE users: defineable by the user herself and the option to leave the choice of the chain up to the specific user). 

* Show user-selected contacts, several levels of users (inner circle, major contacts, minor contacts, connections), option to show only those belonging to only one of the groups or to only this group and the groups above (show major contacts also shows the inner circle but not mior contacts). Still with the option to sort in other groups (work, friends, roleplaying, ...) independent of the visibility-settings. 

* Show most contacted persons: Have internal statistics, how often each person was contacted and show those whom I contact most. Independent of the user-selecteable list (Importance and how often I talk to a person don't need to mix, at least in my case, but I want to see important persons nontheless :) )

Best wishes, 
Arne