[Kolab-devel] Declaring a new folder type for Horde preferences (was: IMAP annotation for groupware folder descriptions)

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> writes:

> * Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> [20070919 09:53]:
>> Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de> writes:
>> > * Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> [20070918 23:33]:
>> >> If you use MySQL as the Horde backend it is trivial to support the
>> >> description feature and there will be users using it. So I doubt that
>> >> it will be removed. It has already existed a long time and has
>> >> actually always been "supported" by the Kolab driver within Horde
>> >> (even the old broken ones). The use of
>> >> "/vendor/kolab/h-share-attr-desc" originates from the older driver
>> >> versions.
>> >
>> > That's why I'd prefer /vendor/horde/something ... even if other
>> > clients will implement it, they will be compatible with this horde
>> > feature here.
>> 
>> Ah, forgot to comment on that. While the wording in the Kolab format
>> specification at
>> http://kolab.org/doc/kolabformat-2.0rc5-html/c154.html#AEN157 is
>> rather vague about this topic I assume that the intention of the
>> paragraph on client specific annotations means that Horde should use
>> "/vendor/kolab/h-*" for its specific features. 
>
> Citing the page:
>
>   All folders MUST be annotated with an entry
>   /vendor/kolab/folder-type containing the attribute value.shared
>   set to: <type>[.<subtype>]
>
>   For other client-specific non standardized types of folders, these
>   MUST be prefixed with "k-" for KMail, "h-" for Horde, "o-" for
>   Outlook with the Toltec Connector and "ok-" for Outlook with the
>   KONSEC Konnektor. E.g. "kolab.o-voicemail".
>
> So this h- thing is only meant for the value of the
> /vendor/kolab/folder-type annotation and can be ignored for our
> question.

As mentioned in my other mail, I misunderstood the sentence but now
that I read it again and hopefully understood it :) I would like to
use the new folder type named

 h-prefs