[Kde-pim] progress

[Jos Poortvliet]

On 10/15/07, Bruno Virlet <bvirlet.kde at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Are you OK with this? I left the config work out, sorry...
> np, it's not worth mentionning but I've given all the details :)
>
> That's perfect and accurate. Is it worth mentionning that this has
> been possible thanks to a lot of work by David Jarvie in the
> time-related classes in Kdelibs ?

Of course! If credit is due, it should be given... Does he have a
blog, personal page, or did he have an interview on the Behind KDE
site? I can't find much, Kalarm comes up on top... I'll prefix this
(preferably with a link to him):

David Jarvie's work on the KDE libraries made better timezone support
possible in  KOrganizer.

> Cheers,
> Bruno
>
> > <p>
> > KOrganizer now has better timezone support. For each event, you can
> > now express the the dates and times in the timezone of your choice. Or
> > you can say "I have a phone meeting at 10:00am, Moscow time" and it
> > will appear your own timezone on your schedule. In the agenda view,
> > you can display timescales from different timezones so you can see
> > when your events occur, both in your local and the other timezones.
> > </p>
> >
> >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Bruno
> > >
> > > On 10/14/07, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Concerning KOrganizer, it received usability work, events now support
> > > > timezones, and so does the agenda view.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Seems fitting, but it's rather short... Maybe you can elaborate more
> > > > on any of these points, or you have something else? It's gotta be in
> > > > Beta3, of course ;-)
> > > >
> > > > On 10/12/07, Bruno Virlet <bvirlet.kde at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Concerning KOrganizer, I've added timezone support for events,
> > > > > timezone scale for agenda view and I have also cleaned up the config
> > > > > dialog.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have also a new month view, really nice, somewhere on my disk but it
> > > > > still lacks drag and drop and I've no time to merge it currently so I
> > > > > think it will be for later :/
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > Bruno
> > > > >
> > > > > On 10/12/07, Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > How about this:
> > > > > > KAlarm has been completely ported to KDE 4, and has already received
> > > > > > several new features and improvements. It now supports multiple alarm
> > > > > > resources, and sharing these resources, allowing for sharing alarm
> > > > > > calendars between laptop and desktop computer. It also correclty
> > > > > > handles timezone and daylight savings changes correctly, and can
> > > > > > restrict alarms to working hours. The alarm itself became more
> > > > > > flexible, as the alarm message window can now show text from the
> > > > > > output of a command, and the edit alarm dialog has seen some usability
> > > > > > work as well.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > BTW - thank you, this is EXACTLY the kind of info I need ;-)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 10/12/07, David Jarvie <lists at astrojar.org.uk> wrote:
> > > > > > > On Friday 12 October 2007 11:47, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > > > > > > > OK. So, what about the following text (which isn't exactly how one
> > > > > > > > normally would write a happy release announcement, but we're FOSS, we
> > > > > > > > want to be realistic, right?):
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > The <a href="http://pim.kde.org/">KDE PIM</a> project has been busy
> > > > > > > > with the new infrastructure <a
> > > > > > > > href="http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/">Akonadi</a>, which is planned for
> > > > > > > > KDE 4.1. Their plans for the KDE 4.0 release ranged from improvements
> > > > > > > > (KBlog, Kalarm, <a
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Please note the capitalisation in KAlarm's name.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > David Jarvie.
> > > > > > > KAlarm author & maintainer.
> > > > > > > http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > > > KDE PIM mailing list kde-pim at kde.org
> > > > > > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim
> > > > > > > KDE PIM home page at http://pim.kde.org/
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > > KDE PIM mailing list kde-pim at kde.org
> > > > > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim
> > > > > > KDE PIM home page at http://pim.kde.org/
> > > > > >
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> > > > >
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