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@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +In this file: + +* What you find here +* What it is +* Mailing List, Getting involved + +What you find here +------------------ + +Anything relating to the KDE-PIM project. See also http://pim.kde.org. + +The KDE-PIM project aims to bring together those who wish to help design, +implement, test, etc. anything that's to do with personal information +management. + +This rather broad scope encompasses mail clients, addressbooks, usenet news, +scheduling and even sticky notes. + +What it is +---------- + +* kaddressbook: The KDE addressbook application. +* kandy: sync phone book entries between your cell phone and computer + ("kandy" comes from "Handy", the german word used for a cellular) +* kmail: the KDE mail client +* kmailcvt: tool for importing mail related data from other programs +* knode: news client +* korganizer: a calendar-of-events and todo-list manager +* kpilot: to sync with your PalmPilot +* kalarm: gui for setting up personal alarm messages, emails and commands +* kalarmd: alarm monitoring daemon, shared by korganizer and kalarm. +* kontact: Integrated PIM application +* karm: Time tracker. +* kitchensync: Synchronization framework, still under heavy development. +* kfile-plugins: vCard KFIleItem plugin. +* knotes: yellow notes application +* konsolecalendar: Command line tool for accessing calendar files. +* korn: mail checker +* akregator: Feed reader + +There is also quite an amount of infrastructure in this package: + +* calendarsystem: library for handling of non-gregorian calendar systems +* libkdepim: Common code for different kdepim apps +* libkdenetwork: Common code for apps previously being in the kdenetwork CVS + module (KMail, KNode). This will be merged with libkdepim. +* mimelib: MIME messages library +* libkcal: C++ api for the iCalendar and vCalendar formats +* libkcal/libical: a basic iCalendar protocol implementation, see RFCs 2245,2246 +* libkpimexchange: connecting to Exchange2000 servers +* kabc/frontend: A GUI frontend for libkabc, not intended for end users. +* kgantt: lib to display and manage Gantt diagrams used by the project view + plugin of KOrganizer +* kdgantt: alternative lib for Gantt diagrams, used by the free/busy view of + KOrganizer (yes, we should decide for one of the Gantt libs) +* kioslaves/sieve: Sieve kioslave +* ktnef: handling of tnef data + +The following subdirectories have been moved to kdenonbeta/kdepim: + +* empath: a modular e-mail client, designed for reuse, needs a Qt + with threading support +* twister: another personal information manager, needs empath +* kab2: another design for the KDE addressbook + +* ldif: a parser for LDIF, the LDAP Information Interchange Format +* libdif: dito, one of them is superfluous +* libimap: IMAP handling +* librmm: an Internet mail message parser (RFC 822 -> Class hierarchy) + +Mailing List, getting involved +------------------------------ + +If you'd like to get involved with the project, subscribe to kde-pim@kde.org +with an email to kde-pim-request@kde.org with the subject line: +subscribe my@email.address + +If you have questions relating to development of this module please post them on +the developers mailing list (kde-pim@kde.org). If you have user questions, +please use kdepim-users@kde.org + +If you are interested in kmail development use the mailing list +kmail-devel@kde.org. + |