[haiku-development] Re: Working on Caya and Mail app for GSoC
- From: Barrett <barrett666@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:44:12 +0200
Hi, sorry for delay
> It seems an interesting feature, maybe an addon API is an overmuch, would
> be
> > better to leave to the apps this task? (by providing the needed
> > class/methods)
>
> Yes, I considered this. I was mainly thinking of cases where no
> dedicated app would exist eg. gmail. It would be nice to have the
> ability to open a 'sync' panel in the preflet and press 'sync contacts
> with gmail' or 'sync contacts with all external sources'.
It's a motivation more than reasonable to make a little addon API.
> > * Allow add / see and modify contacts in a simple and fast way
> > * Attributes editing
> > * Contacts merge feature
> > * Simple but powerful search mechanism
> > * Allow to make groups of contacts
> > * Contacts sync settings
>
> That seems like a good list. How do you plan to integrate this with
> the People app? Would all the editing of contacts be done by People,
> or would you merge it into the Contacts preflet?
>
People is an app tailored to do simple contact editing. I think that it must
remain a stand alone app. I like it's simplicity. I'm thinking something
like that :
You open the contacts preflet, then select a contact from the list and then
click "Edit", a People window will appear. If you select another contact,
the existing People window will display the new contact (using BMessage
internally).
Regards
--Dario
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