[Kroupware] Kaddressbook coupled to IMAP

Matthias Kalle Dalheimer kroupware@mail.kde.org
Mon, 14 Oct 2002 23:07:38 +0200


On Monday 14 October 2002 22.30, Steffen Hansen wrote:
> * Matthias Kalle Dalheimer <kalle@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se> [Oct 14. 
2002 22:17]:
> > On Monday 14 October 2002 22.15, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > > On Monday 14 October 2002 21:16, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> > > > You should remove the imapresource from kdepim/kaddressbook because
> > > > it doesn't belongs there. With uncomment the line in
> > > >  kdelibs/kabc/plugins/Makefile.am
> > > > you can easily bring kroupware functionality to libkabc.
> > >
> > > The whole point of implementing resources as plugins is that it isn't
> > > necessary to clutter kdelibs with all kinds of backends. The IMAP
> > > resource should go to a place where all the other code for accessing
> > > IMAP is, probably in kdenetwork. It doesn't belong to libkabc itself.
> >
> > Which would of course open the question why there is _any_ plugin in
> > kdelibs.
>
> Because libkabc is not very useful without _any_ backends ;-) But you
> are right. Only the vCard file backend really belongs in kdelibs.

And that one is not even a plugin, but rather hardcoded in libkabc itself.

Kalle

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