[Kde-pim] So-Long KNotes?

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 09 January 2010 22:27:43 Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Allen Winter wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > We decided to kill KNotes for KDE 4.5.  Correct?
> > KJots is the planned replacement.
> 
> Should be. However, the version in akonadi-ports is far away from
> being useful. I estimate that a the port is a little more than half
> done. The missing bits are mainly text/rich text stuff etc.
> 
> > Any last arguments to convince us to save KNotes?
> 
> 1) We need to have some way to migrate knotes into akonadi notes that
> can be read with an akonadi application. That's not done yet.
> 2) There is so far no way to import KJots notes into akonadi notes
> yet.
> 3) We can remove knotes when kjots (akonadi version implemented) gets
> merged into trunk. I don't see any rush.
> 4) I don't know the knotes code, but we could probably implement a
> replacement using plasma? Seeing as we need to implement "notes in a
> plasma context" anyway, having a plasma version could be good because
> a) it means knotes doesn't go away, which could be good from a
> perspection POV, b) people like things using plasma, so we can get
> good vibes from that potentially.
> 
From the user POV, a migration path is essential.  There are going to be a lot 
of upset users if KNotes disappears and they can't use something else to read 
existing notes.

Anne
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