[Kde-pim] Getting started with KDE PIM development

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi all,

As a long time user of KDE PIM applications (in particular, KMail and 
KOrganizer), I've finally felt inspired to have a go at some hacking. 
I'm new to the KDE PIM codebase, KF5 and modern Qt - most of my Qt 
experience has been with Qt 2.x (as the last remaining developer on the 
Opie project), so I've clearly got some learning to do - but I'd like to 
help where I can. After some struggling and several false starts I've 
finally got to the point where I've been able to build and run KF5-based 
kdepim from master.

Anyway, I thought I would try digging into KOrganizer. The first thing I 
found though is that I could create new todo items, but editing or 
deleting them didn't work - I just got a beep and "log_korganizer: Null 
incidence" on the console. After some digging around in the code I found 
that if I replaced "TodoModel::TodoRole" at points in the todoview.cpp 
code retrieving the selected item with 
"Akonadi::EntityTreeModel::ItemRole" which I found being used elsewhere 
in the same file, the returned object was actually the right one and the 
actions began to work. My question is though, is this actually the 
correct fix or is there some deeper reason why the current code isn't 
working? (I'm aware that the code is in a state of flux at the moment, 
so perhaps I've just stumbled into the middle of refactoring - feel free 
to tell me I should find some other part of the code to look at.)

Thanks,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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