[Kolab-devel] Kolab Support for the Toltec Connector

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:49, Joon Radley wrote:
> > > > > 2) What is the
> > > > > format of the hidden synchronization message in the folders?
> >
> > There are no hidden sync messages in the folders.
> >
> > > > This message is sofar not finally defined. I will make a proposal
> > > > later. Basically the KDE Kolab Client currently does not support
> > > > multiple folders of the same type e.g. multiple calendars.
>
> To conclude, the client cannot determine the type of a folder until the
> users maps the folder. 

Yes.
Sometimes it even makes sense to switch that mapping dynamically.

> > We specify in the client, which folder should be the parent of the
> > groupware folders. In that parent, we place folders named "Calendar",
> > "Contacts", "Notes", and "Tasks". If the users want to, they can get the
> > localized names Outlook uses, but I really hate that, because the MS
> > morons translated the folder names on disk instead of just in the GUI.
>
> As long as I have data persistence in folder names you can call me a moron
> ;-)

What Bo means is that standard names for folders and then a translation
by the client might have been the better solution, because then clients
with different language settings could work on the same folders 
without having a huge map of all translations of the folder names.

> I only wrote the mail to obtain information on how other kolab clients
> interact with the backend. Naturally I will ask questions and float some
> ideas for some open discussion.

Please do so, any feedbakc is highly appreciated,
even when we sometimes sound a bit crisp. :)
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