Re: KDE 4.1 beta 1

[Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz>]

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:40:28AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com> wrote:
> >
> > I just wasn't sure if I could compile it, without too many unstable
> > requirements...
> > I'm really waiting for either Kontact for KDE4 or this new replacement,
> > Akonadi, whatever IT is..
> 
> Akonadi does not replace Kontact, it is systemwide backend for
> all PIM-related data. Messages, address books, calendar data, etc.
> are all stored and indexed by Akonadi. It can pull data from multiple
> sources (IMAP, POP, remote ICS files, etc.) and aggregate them
> behind a common interface, so Kmail, Mailody, kAddress book, etc.
> only have to know how to talk to Akonadi.
> 
> The Akonadi page isn't the greatest, and is out of date, but the
> diagram at least shows the idea.
> http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/

http://ekaia.org/blog/2008/05/29/how-to-install-kde-4-beta1-from-experimental/
http://ftbfs.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/kde-41-beta-migration/
http://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/2008/05/kde-41-experience.html
http://fboudra.free.fr/wordpress/?p=19
http://pusling.com/blog/?p=72

-- 
Chris.
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