[Kolab-devel] General XFB specification available?

[Christian Hilberg]

Hi Christian,

...argh, my MUA tricked me again, so the stuff went private instead of
to the list... will re-post to the list with your approval...

Am Mittwoch 07 November 2012, um 17:33:02 schrieb Christian Mollekopf:
> 
> > > 
> > > For the Kolab Format 3.x, a specification is drafted here:
> > > http://wiki.kolab.org/Free_Busy#Kolab_Object_Storage_Format
> > 
> > This is indeed the closest match so far. Maybe it will be
> > enough to justify my changes to Evolution code, which are
> > already done (but to be published).
> > 
> 
> Note that this is *not* what was used in Kolab v2, that's a draft for a Kolab 
> v3 specification, which is currently *not* implemented. So I'm not sure it 
> helps in that respect, but could give an idea how to implement such a feature.

We're connecting to the Kolab server already and getting the XFB information
proper through the evolution-kolab plugin. Only Evolution did not have a way
to display the 'X' in "XFB". :-)

> > > There are XFB implementations in Kontact and Horde, but I'm not sure to
> > > what extent they were working and the format how XFB information has been
> > > stored was IMO not ideal (lot's of duplicated information, no link back
> > > to events from the period in the FB object), see the above link for what
> > > I think would be the right approach to implement that feature.
> > 
> > I'm currently only extracting the X-SUMMARY and X-LOCATION,
> > there could be made some use of the X-UID information as well
> > later on.
> 
> KDE Kontact only implements summary and location, so it always depends on what 
> exactly you want to achieve.

Interoperability with the Kolab reference client, as far as evolution-kolab goes.
As for Evolution itself, if they want to extract more than summary and location,
they're free to do so once I got my patches in. :-)

> Cheers,
> Christian

Kind regards,

	Christian

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