KDE Kontact: An Application Integration Framework
PIM Components Get Together

David Faure KDE Project faure@kde.org

Ingo Klöcker KDE Project kloecker@kde.org

Tobias König KDE Project tokoe@kde.org

Daniel Molkentin KDE Project molkentin@kde.org

Zack Rusin KDE Project zack@kde.org

Don Sanders KDE Project sanders@kde.org

Cornelius Schumacher KDE Project schumacher@kde.org

Kontact is the new integrated KDE personal information management application. Well, it seems new, but in fact only the shiny surface is new. Under the hood well-known time-honored KDE applications like KMail, KOrganizer, KAddressBook, KNotes and KNode do their work. This paper describes how KDE component technologies like KParts, DCOP or XMLGUI enable embedding of applications to create something which is more than the sum of the parts.