KContacts - new address book API for KDE

PURPOSE:

KCcontacts provides an API for address book data. This can be used by all
application using data of this type, e.g. KAddressBook, KMail, KOrganizer,
etc. 

FEATURES:

- Value based interface, addressbook entry data is implicitly shared.
- Address book entries are identified by a unique id.
- vCard backend (RFC 2425 / RFC 2426).
- Locking mechanism to support concurrent access to the address book by
  multiple processes.
- Notification on change of addressbook by other process.
- Dialog for selecting address book entries, supports mouse and keyboard
  selection, supports automatic name completion.
- GUI client for viewing, modifying address book data. This is aimed at
  developers not end users.
- Tool for converting data, written with libkab, to libkabc format.
- Multiple backends (resources) for storing entries e.g. LDAP

AUTHOR: Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>

LICENCE: LGPL

DATE: 13 Oct 2001
