KDE PIM Integration

In a previous post, I outlined some of the nifty ways that PIM information (calendars and contacts) sync across the Gnome desktop – today I will be discussing KDE.

KDE has one main application that gathers the various PIM apps under a single umbrella: Kontact

Kontact pulls in your email (through KMail), Calendar (KOrganizer), RSS Feeds (AKregator), Notes and Tasks into a single package.

New emails or calendar items appear in the system tray in the same way that they would if you were running the programs individually (they start daemons on login, similarly to Evolution’s calendar-sync-daemon).  In fact, the only advantage of using Kontact over the individual programs is that they are all gathered in one place.

Kontact allows you to pick and choose which applications fall under its umbrella – even if you have AKregator installed and configured, you can tell it to turn off the quick access link inside of Kontact.