[Kde-pim] Fwd: [SyncEvolution] Akonadi + KDE support: vcard extensions

[Dinesh]

Hi there,

Here, is the information you might be interested:

Basically I assume all 3 of you have been interested in the GSoC proposal of
Mobile Phone syncing, and I assume you have checked out the Links given out
in the Ideas.

So here, I will update you guys with the current state. OpenSync also has
promised a sync solution for Akonadi, and Emanoil, I assume, is the person
working on it. so you can check with him for the current status of Open
Sync.

And just as my Blog says, as far as Syncevo is concerned, The backend works
(a few bugs here and there, but should be done really soon, and I ll be
responsible for that). What we need is a shippable GUI, for the next
Syncevo/KDE PIM release.

AND Rohan wanted to work on it, and started off with the mockups and stuff
about a month or 2 ago, and he can tell you the current state about it, and
if he himself is interested in a GSoC in this project or not.

I am already busy with a lot of things, and will be even more busy, at least
till I graduate some time the mid of next month,  So any help I can get when
it comes to syncevo is really welcome :)

So, as far as the GSoC is concerned, I would be willing to mentor for the
Syncevo part of the mobile phone sync, which roughly translates to building
a *shippable* GUI, to the syncevo's dbus interface, by the end of the GSoC.

Cheers,
Dinesh

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dinesh <saidinesh5 at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [SyncEvolution] Akonadi + KDE support: vcard extensions
To: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly at intel.com>
Cc: Sascha Peilicke <sasch.pe at gmx.de>, SyncEvolution <
syncevolution at syncevolution.org>, Sivan Greenberg <sivan at omniqueue.com>,
Rohan Garg <rohan16garg at gmail.com>, KDE PIM <kde-pim at kde.org>


Hello Patrick,

Attached are all the patches which should get the Akonadi branch up and
running, with the addition of KJots conversion.
I have also attached.
git log -p --author = "Dinesh" >
PatchesByDineshToARebasedAkonadiBranchToMaster
after rebasing it to current master...

So basically if these patches are accepted, I hope we can have KDE support
via. command line tool with Syncevolution 1.2?
And any updates on the GUI Sivan? Rohan is interested to work on it too...
So could you folks please discuss it?
It would be really nice if we can get the GUI done by KDE 4.7?

Cheers,
Dinesh

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly at intel.com>wrote:

> On So, 2011-03-27 at 03:25 +0100, Dinesh wrote:
> > I have had a week of holidays last week, so fixed a few little things
> > in syncevo , which includes adding all the custom fields, fixing an
> > autotools problem, and started the work on the GUI myself. I have
> > tested it against the Ovi servers,
> > and here are the current problems:
>
> [...]
>
> Let me suggest a different approach: instead of talking about the
> problems, let's
>     1. merge your SyncEvolution changes into master
>     2. include it in the nightly testing
>     3. then discuss the problems as they appear in the publicly visible
>        log files (http://runtests.syncevolution.org)
>
> Can you prepare a patch series that targets the current master branch?
> Please keep my initial patches unmodified (expect for rebasing).
> Split up the changes into self-contained pieces as much as possible,
> with explanations of what each piece is about (problem, motivation) and
> how the problem is solved (overview, details in the code).
>
> Then I merge as appropriate and set up the testing.
>
> > Apart from this, what is remaining is adding support for KJots as the
> > Memo Application of the KDE PIM.
> > in here, the issue is the data is of the format:
> >
> >
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> >
> > Subject: Hello
> >
> > Content-Type: text/plain
> >
> > Ting tong
> >
> > So how do i approach this ?
> > Overriding AkonadiMemoSource  's insertIem and readItem, to do the
> > necessary conversions (something like a bijective function mapping the
> > content of KJots item to VNOTE type ? ) vs. some other method like the
> > vcard field lists conversion (if so, please elaborate) ?
>
> It would be simpler to ignore VJOURNAL. The "native" text format
> expected by the Synthesis engine is plain text, with the first line
> reserved for the Subject.
>
> So you would have to parse what you get from Akonadi and compose a
> string, which you return in readItem(). The configuration of that source
> must define plain text as its format, in contrast to other note backends
> which define VJOURNAL. insertItem() then does the inverse.
>
> > also is the vNote depricated or something and should vJournal be used
> > in it's place?
>
> As far as iCalendar is concerned VJOURNAL is the way forward, but I
> don't know what KDE is going to do internally.
>
>
> --
> Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
>
> The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
> I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
> represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
> on behalf of Intel on this matter.
>
>
>
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