On Thursday 08 October 2015 17:01:33 Jan Kundrát wrote: > On Thursday, 8 October 2015 16:30:18 CEST, Pali Rohár wrote: > > I prefer old and abandoned software which is working instead of new > > super-über-modern non working buggy slow one... > > It is technically impossible to link together Qt4 and Qt5 into a > single address space, unfortunately. >
I know. > You're relying on something which is now abandoned by upstream, and > not possible to use from Qt5 without porting it anyway. It also very > likely has zero users besides you, but I could be wrong on that > front. > I have my own (modified) copy of kdepim 4.3/4.4 with removed akonadi. And I was contacted by Gentoo people that they are using it (similar reasons like me). So at least I'm not the only one... But it is not case or reason for Trojita. > > I want to have one addressbook where are my contacts (names, email > > addresses, phone numbers and ideally also jabber IDS). > > That sounds reasonable. However, it seems that your use case revolves > around using a single device for accessing these data. That's of > course a valid use case, but something which is in the minority > nowadays. What works for you does not work for me -- I want my > contact list usable from my cell phone, for example. KABC doesn't > and won't provide that. > I understand. I just do not see tool which is 1) provider-free and 2) is 100% working. > > No I really do not want to save these informations into millions of > > databases stored in different cloud systems and trying to > > synchronize them, which at some time will be broken, incomplete > > and undebugable. > > There's a standardized thing for this, the CardDAV. It's quite > similar to IMAP in its architecture, at least conceptually -- > there's a single central location and clients are supposed to sync > against that location. > I know both CardDAV and CalDAV protocols for PIM synchronization. Just *proper* and working support is missing in client applications :-( And Trojita is not exception. > A Qt5 library interfacing with CardDAV is something which I would > like to have. I have no clue if there's something like that already, > but I suspect that some projects are around -- if only due to Jolla > et al. Once we find such a library, I would be happy to have an > addressbook plugin for this thing in Trojita. > > Either way, Qt4 simply is going away. I'm sorry that it's going to > cause you troubles, but there is nothing that we can do about it. > > Cheers, > Jan I understand you. This is just my usage & point of view. -- Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com
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