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Kaplan is most excellent
by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Monday 23/Sep/2002, @09:47

I was worried when I looked over Kroupware, as I'm working on a non-folder based alternate email/messaging/contact application for KDE. It would plug into Kaplan quite nicely (or run as a seperate application), but Kroupware looks like you're locked into it's variant of KMail. Moving to a large monolithic application that does a whole bunch of stuff (like Outlook) prevents you from picking and choosing components - your favorite addressbook with your favorite email application.

(As an aside: Yeah - that's right, non-folder based. But not flat. It's a relational message database with a novel (I think) UI that is pretty nifty. No clue if I can climb it up to version 1.0, right now I have pages of notes, a KWord document full of documentation, and a dozen PyQt files that semi-work as a bad text editor that saves to a mailbox format, and makes little icons of people pop up when I create files. :) If you're interested in discussing some interesting alternative concepts about how to build a communication interface, which I've dubbed KIM (KDE Integrated Messaging), feel free to email me. I'm hoping it might debut around the time KDE 4.0 is released).

--
Evan (been awake over 24 hours now - please excuse any run on or fragment sentences - now, back to work).

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Re: Kaplan is most excellent
by Anonymous on Monday 23/Sep/2002, @10:28

As I understand it, the first version of Kroupware is a stepping stone. Sounds reasonable, given their schedule.

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