KDE 2.0beta is due out on 1st Dec. This will also mark the debut of
Magellan 1.0beta. I think Magellan can do everything you've described
below, plus its multithreaded so at the UI end everything happens very
smoothly and quickly. Its supposed to be easily extensible as well with
a built in scripting language. For a full description check out
http://scare.csis.ul.ie/kAlliance/Magellan/Features/index.html
and
http://www.kalliance.org
You might like to beta test this product when its released, you might pick
up more implementation ideas from it. Its the best in its class that I've
seen.
johno
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
>I'm posting this to ILUG as well as CLUG since there's probably a few of
>you who might be interested in the following:
>>Ever used Goldmine? It's a nice looking marketing tool, but it can be
>buggy as hell, and difficult to configure.
>Basically, it's an email client and contact manager in one application.
>Like Outlook I guess, but it offers the ability to list the history of
>each user who has emailed us. ie. a paper trail.
>It also has email tracks (automated emails), automated processes
>(crontabs), and many other things that have not occured to me.
>Oh yeah, it only runs in Windows, or very badly in Wine.
>>I'm trying to implement the email+contact manager part of it at present.
>What I want to do is:
>present a nice configurable interface. Everything should be
>configurable. font size/face/colour, frame sizes.
>Use of javascript to exploit the full potential of the browser (opening
>new sub-windows, simple text checking, event driven actions)
>Use database or ldap to hold the user database. phplib has nicely
>abstracted this and I might be able to do something similar.
>Order of importance:
>Receive messages (*)
>Store messages in databases and create user accounts automatically (*)
>Browse stored messages and create folders. Related: Filters.
>Browse user database and see stats and history on them. Related:
>groups/companies/sector.
>Reply and compose mail. when composing mail the user database has to be
>available to the user. Hotmail has a nice way of doing this - click on
>"To" and a new smaller window opens with your address book in there.
>Click on a name and the name gets inserted into the main page in the
>right place.
>>{*) Completed, but needs work because there are some obvious
>improvements (multiple pop accounts/users should belong in a
>company/notification that entered users have incomplete records)
>>I'll have some source and install script to show you in about a week..
>>Donncha.
>>adam beecher wrote:
>>>> Any chance you could put together a kind of summary of the project Donncha?
>> I'd like to help out, but without an idea of what has to be done I'm no good
>> to ya. :)
>>>> adam
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