Re: Contacts and Calendars Standard

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 14:34, Daniel Farrell wrote:
> Out of a discussion on gnomedesktop.org I wanted to get people's opinions
> on a standard format and location for contacts and calendars.
> 
> To me it would seem like vCard and iCalendar would be the logical choices
> for formats.
> 
> As for locations I was thinking:
> 
> ~/.contacts/CategoryName.vcf
> ~/.calendars/CalendarName.ics
> 
> We could even do local mailboxes the same way.  In mbox format at
> ~/.mail/MailboxName.mbox
> 
> This would allow users to access the same data regardless of which desktop
> they logged in to.  And these formats are commonly supported formats which
> would make it easy to import and export them.
> 
> Questions?  Comments?  Snide remarks?

You'd probably want to cc: evolution-hackers@, since evo is gnome's
defacto standard for these things. 

Luis