[Kolab-devel] integrate fbview into horde

[Bernhard Reiter]

Hello Richard,

On Thursday 13 December 2007 22:31, Richard Bos wrote:
> the kolab project has since a very long time offered the fbview portal to
> quickly find out which people or free or busy.  Now that kolab is nicely
> integrated into horde (or the other way), it is possible to obtain the
> freebusy information directly from horde. 

the "directly" makes a few assumptions, one is that the user is already logged 
into Horde or is willing to log into Horde. From the Kolab Server side we 
recommend to put the Horde Kolab Client on a seperate machine to seperate the 
load. Given the subset of functionality needed for displaying a freebusy 
overview, we can make it more secure (less code), more focussed (as you have 
already noticed) and saving computing power. So this is more likely to stay
in the main Kolab Server which also has the imapd.

> But..., this is a bit 
> complicated: there are many mouse clicks involved to obtain the view.  On
> the other hand with a patched kronolith menu, the best of both worlds could
> be obtained.

Yes, it would be cool of course if all Kolab Client would offer a comfortable 
freebusy overview. The KDE client is close to have one. It would be nice
to have one for the Horde client as well naturally. So I like the initative.

> I discussed this a bit offline with Gunnar, but we want to get the opinion
> about this from the kolab-devel ML.  I'll copy and paste Gunnar's lat email
> to me about this below, so you can have a look at it, and please let us now
> your thoughts about this:
>
> =========  Gunnar - Richard discussion =========

[snip]

One idea would be to have links between all three offered webinterfaces, if 
they are configures to each other:
	/admin
	/fbview
     /horde
so it would be a matter of /fbview could profit from information of /horde
to gain a better patch. In terms of clicks it would be faster just hitting the 
"fbview-button" from /horde (I assume).

Bernhard


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