[Kde-pim] Summer of Code Proposal: Journal Improvements

[Christian Weilbach]

Hi,

> This isn't a formal proposal yet, just a shout-out for some of the mailing
> list rather than IRC crowd.
>
> Basically, I was thinking of improving the Journal in Kontact for my
> possible SoC project.
>
> The main task I would focus on improving is the ability to post journals as
> blog posts, a feature half implemented in a branch already.
It is not half implemented really. There is quite some work to do, which I did 
already ;-) 
Have a look at KBlog (http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/pim/kblog/). I've 
got it to a quite usable state recently (at least the feature complete unit 
tests work with my wordpress server for both Blogger API 1.0 and MetaWeblog 
API, but that doesn't mean there are most likely some bugs and cleanup left).
The documentation is almost complete now, so projects like the KJournal 
resource should be able to implement now. I would propose to work together on 
implementing the resource for KOrganizer, since I'm currently trying to add 
Blogger API 2.0 / Atom API support.
Question to the mailing list: Should one use akonadi or kresource at the 
moment for the blogging resource?
Note: KBlog is based on KDE 4 and that way I wouldn't like to hack on the 
KDEPIM 3 series of KOrganizer.
Additionally I will add a C++ Plasmoid once Plasma gets to a usable state (and 
like to add DBUS to both the KJournal Resource and the Plasmoid if possible). 
Maybe scripting is also possible.
> Moving on from 
> this, I would like to add a WYSISWG editor, clean up some features such as
> removing the attendee journal entries, allowing them to form a ToDo list,
> adding photos and some of the other items on the wishlist here:
> http://bugs.kde.org/simple_search.cgi?id=journal
Sounds good from my blog perspective, since fotos can be used via MetaWeblog 
API (at least be posted to the server).
>
> Basically, I wanted to know how happy people would be for me to do this,
> and who would be willing to mentor me and talk about the project.
I'm not a pro in programming myself (I am a student, too ;-) ). I would 
suggest to have a look at 
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2007/Ideas , especially the 
KOrganizer Theming part seems to be really nice in my opinion. 
I would really like to see a DBUS interface to the Calendar, too. I'd like to 
have some applet on my Desktop showing the ToDos ( or maybe my Calendar).
Cheers,
Christian

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