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libgnomepim

June 8, 2004 on 2:49 am | In Hacking, GNOME |

I’ve drafted a proposal for a personal information management library for GNOME, called libgnomepim. It’s a library for creating PIMs with vairous backends, an easy API and a notification daemon. This library should be independent from Evolution and its data server, although a e-d-s backend is planned right from the start (since Evo is presumably going in GNOME from the 2.8 release cycle).

Why a PIM lbrary? Why not using Evolution? Because Evolution is a groupware. Is a mail user agent. And it is also a PIM, but with a twist for handling groups of people interacting. What I really need is a PIM, just a PIM, nothing more than a PIM. Something really light on requests, and something easy to use (programmatically speaking). And also something powerful enough to grow and use the things that GNOME will support in future release (see Robert Love’s Project Utopia). So there’s really no competition intended with Evolution; on the contrary: libgnomepim could be really offer an easy middle layer for its data server.