[Kde-pim] note format

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Monday 17 of March 2014 15:25:19 Christian Mollekopf wrote:
> On Monday 17 March 2014 14.42:48 Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> > On Monday 17 of March 2014 12:29:02 Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 09:41 +0100, Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> > > > On Monday 17 of March 2014 09:33:05 Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > > > > Hello!
> > > > > 
> > > > > I recreated my Akonadi setup for automated testing against
> > > > > SyncEvolution, this time using sqlite and Akonadi 1.7.2. For notes I
> > > > > created something for "Notes" using the akonadiconsole, which can
> > > > > store
> > > > > application/x-vnd.kde.notes.
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > regarding me reply in the other thread a few minutes ago, I was
> > > > assuming
> > > > Akonadi >= 1.11.0 and kdepimlibs >= 4.12. Please note that 1.7.2 is
> > > > ancient
> > > > and you might run into unexpected problems.
> > > 
> > > It's what is shipping in Debian Stable (= Wheezy). Are you telling me
> > > that I should stop supporting that?
> > 
> > No, I meant that what I described in the other email does not work with
> > older KDE and Akonadi.
> > 
> > > > > SyncEvolution looks for text/x-vnd.akonadi.note ("akonadi" instead
> > > > > of
> > > > > "kde"). This goes back to the original commit from Dinesh back in
> > > > > 2011.
> > > > > Has the mimetype perhaps been renamed?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Or is application/x-vnd.kde.notes a different format? Which one, and
> > > > > where can I find the documentation for it? Is
> > > > > text/x-vnd.akonadi.note
> > > > > still relevant?
> > > > 
> > > > Looking into current 4.13 branch, I only see text/x-vnd.akonadi.note
> > > > everywhere. Where exactly did you find the kde mimetype?
> > > 
> > > akonadiconsole is listing it as "Mimetypes" under "Details" for the
> > > "Notes" resource on Debian Stable, using Akonadi 1.7.2.
> > 
> > Oh, I only looked into akonotes resource (which uses vnd.akonadi.note),
> > but
> > I didn't know about the Notes resource, which indeed uses vnd.kde.notes.
> > 
> > > When I copy the XDG dirs from Debian Stable to Debian Testing with
> > > 1.11.0, SyncEvolution is not finding the resource either when searching
> > > for text/x-vnd.akonadi.note. To me it looks like it still has the
> > > application/x-vnd.kde.notes content type, however, it is a bit harder to
> > > check because akonadiconsole does not run in my Debian Testing
> > > environment (no X).
> > > 
> > > Looking further on Debian Stable I found the string in kdepim-runtime:
> > > 
> > > $ for i in `dpkg -L kdepim-runtime`; do if strings -a $i | grep -q
> > > kde.notes; then echo $i; fi; done
> > > /usr/share/akonadi/agents/notesresource.desktop
> > > /usr/share/kde4/apps/akonadi/plugins/serializer/akonadi_serializer_kcalc
> > > or
> > > e. desktop
> > > /usr/share/kde4/apps/akonadi/plugins/serializer/akonadi_serializer_kcal.
> > > de
> > > s
> > > ktop /usr/share/mime/packages/kdepim-mime.xml
> > > /usr/bin/akonadi_notes_resource
> > > 
> > > This is KDE 4.4.11. The mimetype is the same with KDE 4.11.3 in Testing,
> > > although the files are different.
> > > 
> > > So the question still stands: is application/x-vnd.kde.notes the new (?)
> > > type for notes, and what is the content?
> > 
> > Judging from the serializers, both mime-types represent the same data
> > format, so you can use both.
> 
> It seems indeed to be an alias according to kdepim-runtime 72b7c09d5, but
> IMO we should decide for one as i.e. the kolab resource now uses text/x-
> vnd.akonadi.note and application/x-vnd.akonadi.note while the notes
> resource uses application/x-vnd.kde.notes. IMO we should go with text/x-
> vnd.akonadi.note as specified in kdepimlibs/akonadi/notes/noteutils.h.

+1  for vnd.akonadi.note

However we can't just remove it, we can only make sure that all new items are 
created with the new mime type.

Dan

> 
> Cheers,
> Christian
> 
> > Dan
> > 
> > > Bye, Patrick
> > > 
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