I know during the 2008 GSoC there was a project to create akonadi resources for various google apps like google calendar and gmail contacts. Does anybody know the status of that project? Is it going to be in KDE 4.3? Or is it going to appear in KDE at all?

TheBlackCat wrote:I know during the 2008 GSoC there was a project to create akonadi resources for various google apps like google calendar and gmail contacts.

No, there have been proposals for such resources, however none of them made it into the final selection.

However, a Brazilian developer started to work on a Google Data resource on his own, it is currently in KDE extragear and might be releases closely to KDE's 4.3

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Going further, is it possible to create scriptable resources?

Like resources for webmail contacts list. There are many web clients and it isn't hard to create a regexp for any of them, but if developers of each client would be forced to write/compile/test everything manually, it won't payback,

But if support for akonadi could be just a matter of 50 lines....

Lukas wrote:Going further, is it possible to create scriptable resources?

Another developer, also Brazilian (there's a pattern here ), did a proof-of-concept implementation of that during his Google Summer of Code project last year using Kross.

I don't think it is anywhere close to be real world usable, but it shows that it is certainly possible given more time for a clean (re-)implementation.

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