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Re: Kontact
by Craig Ambrose on Tuesday 02/Nov/2004, @15:32

Although it may look like no plan, I think that the modularity of Kontact gives it huge advantages over other such suites. For example if a given company wanted to add another PIM related program which they had coded as a kpart, then it could be loaded into kontact (as I understand it), in order to do some organisation specific task, such as tracking work hours or something.

I've been a big fan of the kde PIM suite for some time because it's modularity. We're now seeing a lot more integration, which is what everyone has been crying out for. I just hope that the integration is possible without harming the modular nature of these applications. I think there are two many huge software suites which are not suitable for certain groups of users because one part of them isn't right. Ideally, with KDE PIM, if I didn't like, say the address book, I should be able to code my own and use it seamlessly in place of KAddressBook (just an example btw). I'd love to know if this is currently the case. But even if it isn't entirelly seamless, Kontact and KDE PIM is much closer to this goal than anything else. I'm just not sure if I'm the only loony out there who things that this is important. :)

Anyway, congratulations to the Kontact/Kmail team for winning this well deserved award.

Craig

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Re: Kontact
by Ingo Klöcker on Tuesday 02/Nov/2004, @16:11

You could surely replace KAddressBook with another Address Book application. There are probably a few things which won't work anymore because KMail explicitely calls kaddressbook via dcop. But if needed a general address book dcop interface could be created so that alternatives to KAddressBook which implement this interface would be fully compatible with KMail. For the other components of Kontact there are similar constraints.

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Re: Kontact
by Jeaneen on Tuesday 14/Dec/2004, @10:28

Hi,
Is this you, Craig (Chuckie)? I've lost you can am wondering how/where/what you're doing these days. Get back to me if this is you. I just got a card from Mark Shintani and was feeling very nostalgic.
Jeaneen

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