KOrganizer

[Kelly]

Well, I'll offer my time, although I'm still not entirely familiar with Qt/KDE 
development yet.  KOrganizer is one of my favourite apps and one I was 
especially hoping for a KDE4 port.

On Thursday, April 05, 2007 8:06 am Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Dear fellow KDE developers!
> As some of you might know, I'm the current maintainer of KOrganizer and
> libkcal. Unfortunately, I've found it harder and harder during the recent
> year or two to allocate enough -- or rather any -- time to KDE development.
> This clearly shows in SVN trunk, where KOrganizer is far from being ported
> to Qt4/KDE4 and libkcal didn't get the API overhaul that we have all hoped
> for for KDE 4.
> The reasons for this is mainly time shortness on my side (day job,
> management of our choir "Jung-Wien", being a football referee, etc.).
>
> To be honest, I cannot responsibly act as maintainer for KOrganizer and
> libkcal any more. Unfortunately, the once so active KDE PIM crew mostly
> suffers from the same problems, so there is no logic successor for
> maintainership among us, who is not already fully loaded with various
> tasks.
>
> KOrganizer (and Kontact) is currently the best calendaring application that
> I know, in particular together with the IMAP resource. You realize this in
> particular, when you have to use it for real life work, like I do. As a
> developer only, you don't realize what is important for businesses and
> other stuff. E.g. printing is really important, but KOrganizer beats
> everything else in that regard.
>
> Of course, there are some things that KOrganizer really needs:
> -) Exchange support. That's the #1 complaint from business users
> -) A better month view. The current one is simply unusable and
> user-unfriendly -) some other smaller things, which are not so vital.
>
> However, despite these small issues, all in all KOrganizer is a mighty cool
> application and the best calendaring app that exists currently.
>
> Who is willing to take on the task to improve it even further? Of course,
> I'll provide as much help as I can, preferrably on IRC or by email.
>
> Cheers,
> Reinhold



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