Standard for address books ?

[Mildred]

Hi,

I wonder if it could be possible to elaborate a standard to let all
applications on current free desktops share the same address book ?

For example it would permit to share the same contacts between for
example:
- claws-mail
- kopete
- kmail
- evolution
- ...

Why this is important ? because I don't ant to open my MUA to search
for phone numbers, because I think my jabber client should be
integrated with my address book, ...

I know that actually KDE have a central address book that can be used by
all KDE applications, but I would like to have this possibility with
all applications and not to be forced in any way.

For example we could imagine a standard (and extensible) database using
for example LDIF and stored in ~/.local/share/addresses/ And then we
could configure every software to use this database (or not).

I would like to see the same things with Mails (be able to switch MUA
without loosing all the mails in local folders), but I think it is more
important to start with contacts. Moreover, you don't change your MUA
every day.


So what do you think ?

Maybe my idea of a shared database is not really good, but I don't see
something else. If you have any ideas, please share.

Also, if a such standard exists, I didn't find it (and it is obviously
not applied), please give me pointers.

Thanks.

Mildred.

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