[haiku-development] Re: New project: Address book and calendar app

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 22:57 +0200, François Revol wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > My name is Philippe Saint-Pierre and I'm want to do a useful
> > application for once.. ;-)
> > 
> > So, I want to create a new address book/calendar/todo list app (no
> > email client! I will launch BeAM or Mail gladly from my app tho)
> 
> Hmm we already have a contact managment app (People), that is using 
> Tracker for searching and browsing. You'll likely want to stick to the 
> People file format for interoperability.
> The IM Kit also uses People files:
> http://beosimkit.sourceforge.net/
> 
> You could first try to add an export menu to People, or even better, a 
> vCard-People translator...

This could be a good starting point:

http://www.bebits.com/app/2884

Sources are available.

> You might want to try using files for events as well, and use indexed 
> attributes, but it might not scale very well...

Using files with attributes would be nice, but is there a standard set
of attributes for event files that all apps can comply with (and thus
avoid different apps using different attributes for the same purpose)?

Cheers,

Koki

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