plasma workspace integration for akonadi

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday, 2014-02-07, 22:25:53, Heena Mahour wrote:
> I am planing to implement the following for now
> ->to-do list plasmoid
>  ->the re-implementation of lion mail
> (for notes there is already kjots )

Just to be sure everyone is on the same page and has the same context: :)
this is an alternative idea/suggestion, i.e. providing Plasma and/or QtQuick 
based user interfaces for PIM data input and/or visualization.

It involves the same subsystems but with a different goal.
Both goals are equally worthwhile IMHO.

Cheers,
Kevin

> suggestions?
> 
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Kevin Krammer <krammer at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Friday, 2014-02-07, 15:59:52, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > > Hi Heena,
> > > 
> > > On Thursday, February 06, 2014 21:59:48 Heena Mahour wrote:
> > > > Greetings ,
> > > > I was recently discussing about the integration of plasma workspace
> > > > for
> > > > akonadi with Kevin , as also suggested in [1] but is not yet done .
> > > > Further
> > > > , Since is Plasma is moving toward Qt 5.2 and QML 2.0 while akonadi is
> > 
> > not
> > 
> > > > .It could be achieved by using the control d-bus of akonadi directly
> > > > ,without the use of kdepimlibs .It would be nice to get some
> > 
> > suggestions
> > 
> > > > over this idea from plasma-devel :)
> > > 
> > > You want to implement an akonadi client API over DBus? Isn't that what
> > > kdepimlibs does, so the right thing to do seems porting kdepimlibs to
> > > me.
> > 
> > No, sorry, that is a misunderstanding based on missing context :)
> > 
> > The GSOC idea referenced below is not about data at all, it is about
> > state.
> > 
> > Akonadi state information and control works via D-Bus, so it would be
> > possible
> > to do a client for that without linking to libakonadi-kde.
> > 
> > This was just brought up as an option, since Plasma/workspace development
> > and
> > KDEPIM libs development are currently not using the same Qt version and
> > potentially will not during the GSOC period.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin
> > 
> > > > On a second note , it would be nice to have a mentor for it from
> > 
> > plasma as
> > 
> > > > well apart from Kevin since it is more inclined towards plasma
> > > > [1]
> > 
> > http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2012/Ideas#Project:_Plasma_Workspace_Integra
> > 
> > > > ti on_for_Akonadi Regards !
> > 
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> > Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
> > KDE user support, developer mentoring
> > 
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