The Infusion Project

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What Is Infusion?
Infusion is a cross-platform communications environment which is designed to work with the Citadel/UX Communications Server. Infusion provides enterprise environments with a robust communication and collaboration tool, which has a feel that most office users are already familiar with (namely, Microsoft Outlook). It supports e-mail messaging (and is even internet-ready!), live chatting between users, popup sticky notes, and a shared contact list, currently. Many more features are on the way!

The Citadel/UX Communications Server provides your enterprise with a powerful communications system, which connects all of your employees (in the office and on the road) to each other. Citadel/UX provides many similar features to the Microsoft Exchange server, but does not cost a thing to run! For more details, please go to the Citadel/UX homepage.

Supported Platforms
Infusion will run on any platform to which libCxClient, Qt 2.2, and KDE 2.0 have been ported to.

Latest Changes: (Release 0.61)

Improved DCOP communications layer in infusiond (The Infusion Daemon).

Can now obtain folder index and message list
Can deliver messages via dcop
Can load Sticky Notes via dcop
Rewrote DCOP layer in a more KDE-standard way (but the whole object schema for infusiond still needs work...)

Improved user interface.

Concentrated on making the WndMain::View menu more functional.
User Interface now saves the position and visibility of every item in WndMain, hopefully allowing users to customize Infusion to meet their needs a little bit better.

Removed KOrganizer code. Am working on incorporating its KParts object... (Not perfect yet)

Significantly improved operating speed.

Many elements are cached, greatly improving refreshes and other annoying hangs in previous versions.

Cleaned up the code somewhat (still needs plenty 'o work...)

Added more extensive cache management subsystem, to help Infusion become MUCH more responsive to general navigation. It isn't perfect yet, and it may eat up gobs of memory, but I hope that it eventually proves to make Infusion work better.

Tried to make infusiond DCOP interface compatible with as broad a range of 2.x KDE systems as possible. This precluded the use of the "long unsigned int" type (at least, until I figger out what the KDCOP construct for it is... ;)

Working on creating a rudimentary Contacts list. This is much harder than it sounds! Zounds! :)

Help Wanted!
If you wish to contribute to the Infusion project, I could use any help you have to offer! Specifically:

Anyone have a good suggestion/design for the Infusion project homepage?

Looking for users to submit RPMS of Infusion for Linux (or binaries for any platform, for that matter!)

E-mail me with any suggestions. :)