[Kde-pim] progress

[Jos Poortvliet]

On 10/12/07, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper <vr at movingparts.net> wrote:
> On 10/12/07, Bertjan Broeksema <b.broeksema at kdemail.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday 11 October 2007 21:30:05 Allen Winter wrote:
> > > On Thursday 11 October 2007 5:00:03 am Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > > > Hey guys,
> > > >
> > > > I haven't seen too many blogs about the KDE pim progress in beta 3.
> > > > Could anyone write something about the current status and the
> > > > improvements done over the last few months? Preferably in a blog, so I
> > > > can link to it ;-)
> > >
> > > Jos,
> > >
> > > An overview:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > KPIlot.. no idea.  vanRijn?
> >
> > Currently the gui code and the kpilot lib are completly ported to KDE4/Qt4
> > so
> > no more Qt3/KDE3 support in there. We're still working on finishing the
> > the
> > base conduit code. The base conduit does syncing already quite well as
> > proven
> > by the Keyring conduit which I wrote and which is quite useable already.
>
>
> Um, yeah, what Bertjan said...
>
> Next thing to do is writing some code to handle category syncing between a
> > pc
> > datastore and the handheld datastore. When this is finished we can start
> > porting the other conduits to the base conduit framework. I don't expect
> > that
> > the porting will be a too trivial task, but it should be relatively easy
> > when
> > the base conduit is working well.
>
>
> KPilot has apparently never been able to sync category information to the
> Palm, which is a major pain in the butt.  So the next thing on the list,
> like Bertjan said, is getting this fixed.
>
> However, currently vanRijn and I as well are a bit busy with real life. So I
> > don't expect KPilot ready for the 4.0 release (correct me if i'm wrong
> > vanRijn =:).
>
>
> Yep.  Actually, I was just thinking that I need to blog about the current
> state of affairs in KPilot/trunk this morning...  I was really hoping that
> we'd be fully ported and operational by now, but we're just not there yet.
> And my spare time is about to go even more in the toilet again for a little
> bit with switching jobs, doing home-owner-ish stuff, selling a house, moving
> cross-country again, etc.
>
> So...  like Bertjan said, KPilot's lib, daemon, main UI, and configuration
> screens are ported and operational.  We currently do not have all of the old
> conduits ported over yet, which means that calendar, todo, and address
> syncing are not there yet.  The good news is that 3.5.8's KPilot is the best
> evar...  =;)  Our focus in KDE4 has been to clean up as much cruft as
> possible, to establish a solid foundation that all of the conduits will now
> share, and to create a new conduit in place to exercise that base code
> (namely, Bertjan's new keyring conduit).

So the text is right, its gonna be 4.1 for KPilot? Plz continue your
blog of course, so I'll have a link ;-)

>
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