[haiku-development] Re: Working on Caya and Mail app for GSoC

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Adrien Destugues <
pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Le 29/03/2011 22:09, Clemens a écrit :
>
>
>> All this sounds like the same problems discussed in the IMAP case. What do
>> you think about a jabber/icq/... FS? A bit off topic: we really should think
>> about such a net service FS infrastructure with local caching. Another
>> use-case would be picasa/flickr FS (here an option to flush the download
>> cache would be needed).
>>
> Mh... are we copying Plan 9 on the "everything is a file" approach now ?
> I think it makes some sense for IMAP (as long as the mails are still
> downloaded to my disk), but my jabber contacts definitely are not files.
> People files are already somewhat borderline (no file content !); using
> these files in a remote FS would feel very strange (so, that's a file with
> no content, that's not stored on my hard drive... what ?) and confusing.
>
> One nice thing about people files is it allows to sync your local address
> book with your GMail contact list automagically :)
>
> --
> Adrien.
>
>
Hi,

I am not often commenting on the dev list, but I have a suggestion: Please
implement an LDAP client that People, Mail and Caya (or other XMPP clients)
can make use of.

People could also need an export to vcard feature.

-- 
Regards / Med hilsen,

Frank Paul Silye
http://www.frankps.net


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