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Written by frsantos the 3 Mar 08 at 11:52.
Category: Office.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Add a system wide address book that can be accessed from all applications that may need it (Thunderbird, Evolution, Kontact, ...)
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bigdufstuff wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 16:03
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It already exists as evolution-data-server (eds).
However, Thunderbird and Kontact choose not to use it, which is the real problem.
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neon wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 21:09
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Yeah, this would be awesome.
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samurailink3 wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 23:28
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This would be an amazing help. Having a more integrated system this way would only benefit users. With the situation right now, there exists a problem with newer computer users. Having multiple contacts spread over multiple places confuses people. Having a default system-wide accessible address book would only server to better the user experience.
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Yanqui wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 06:07
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why not ldap? It's *actually* universal and can be used by anything. An easy front-end to your ldap address book could be useful, plus it would scale REALLY well.
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shermann wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 09:08
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Yes, LDAP is the real way to go.
Addressbook frontends for LDAP are already in evolution etc. we just need to push ldap into ubuntu in a good way.
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_sebastian_ wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 01:50
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or a add-on for thunderbird/ff to use the evolution-data-server.
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shermann wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 11:46
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@Sebastian:
Why reinventing the wheel?
thunderbird does know about ldap and how to access it.
all other email ui clients know how to access it too (ok most of them)...so use a solution which is in use already for hundreds of thousands of users all over the world.
regards,
\sh
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vitrex wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 15:47
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i also like to have an easy ldap adressbook solution on ubuntu
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Sidney wrote on the 13 Apr 08 at 17:22
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+1
It's not just for email, right now the evolution address book is used by Deskbar and Pidgin (and some others, I think), which makes it very useful.
Still, I don't use evolution but rather claws-mail, and I'd love to have a address book for all apps together.
Perhaps some nice standalone frontend for the evolution book (with no dependency to evolution itself), and plugins for the other clients?
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 droetker (Moderator) wrote on the 24 May 08 at 17:43
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with KDE4 there comes a project named Akonadi - it has no KDE/GNOME dependencies and would be the perfect future-proof solution. Its no groupware or LDAP service, but an abtraction layer for PIM data - like HAL for hardware.
We all knot that Evolution lacks many features (see Idea 3597 or Idea, and has has many bugs.
It could be improved, but my intention is to make KDE and GNOME work side-by-side and not as opponents.
Desktop search is another thingy there...
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saivann (Moderator) wrote on the 29 May 08 at 13:20
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Or simply a person could be able to choose which programs should be automatically synced by opensync when it will be available and more stable? This way, we wouldn't have to change the default configuration of any program that contains PIM data like pidgin, thunderbird, evolution, etc.
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DanaKil wrote on the 4 Jun 08 at 13:26
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as droetker said, I hope that Akonadi will be choosen in a near future. It's desktop agnostic so no problem with Gnome even if this is originally a KDE project
It keeps in one place all pim data, adressbook, mails, bookmarks, RSS feeds... and let the applications connects to it in an easy way
With akonadi, all apps (gnome or kde) can keep their pim data in a central place and for the firefox users, there even should be a way to do an extension to synchronize the bookmarks with akonadi (I think ;) ). The first release will be in KDE 4.1 and we will need to wait a little bit so that all applications can fully integrate it
Go Go Akonadi !
http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/
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_sebastian_ wrote on the 9 Jul 08 at 22:59
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To me the where and how emails are stored is not so importand, I use only one mail client. BUT I have a variety of application who need user information, stuff like addresses, birthdays, contacts in general, bookmarks...
By now I have a thunderbird address book, contacts in evolution calendar for birthdays, contacts in skype and pigthing and so on. I haven't mentioned my mobile and palm devices...
+1
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natureflow wrote on the 14 Jul 08 at 05:36
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No sync, please! Store ALL contacts on ONE location.
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