Junior job - Agenda and month views in KOrganizer

[nathan g. christenson]

Dan - Thanks for the suggestions - I'll take a look at the Akonadi jobs you 
mentioned.

Carl - I started with the month view when taking a look at KOrganizer - I will 
send you a screenshot of where I got to see if you are interested or think 
it's relevant for what you are trying to accomplish.

On Friday, 5 October 2018 04:28:13 CDT Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 October 2018 17:26:53 CEST nathan g. christenson wrote:
> > Hello,
> 
> Hi Nathan,
> 
> thanks for offering to help us! Much appreciated.
> 
> > I am interested in working on the agenda and month views in Korganizer if
> > there isn't anyone yet working on them.
> 
> Carl has already picked up this task and submitted a first patch recently:
> https://phabricator.kde.org/D15916
> 
> > I looked at the previous efforts for this and the comments, and I have
> > some
> > thoughts on how to proceed, but wanted to check with you all before
> > putting
> > in any serious time. I would focus my time on cleaning up the views and
> > making them look more modern (removing gradients, changing the color
> > scheme
> > to match Breeze more closely, etc.)
> 
> I CC'ed Carl, let's see what his plan is - while Carl is working on painting
> the events, changing the color schema for example could probably be done in
> parallel.
> 
> > I also noticed that there are some comments about how the look of Kontact
> > and its components is not currently important when compared to underlying
> > technical issues - if there are junior jobs that would provide more
> > immediately relevant help, let me know and I will take a look at those as
> > well.
> 
> Looks are also important, but of course pointless if nothing works :-)
> 
> Depending on how much you want to get your hands dirty, there are some
> lower- level tasks that would help us to move forward, for example running
> database fsck as part of "akonadictl fsck"
> (https://phabricator.kde.org/T9753), or a larger-scale task regarding
> overall error reporting in Akonadi (https:// phabricator.kde.org/T9783).
> 
> However, the /best/ thing to start working on, is something that affects you
> personally - is there maybe some pain-point in Kontact that you would want
> to tackle?
> 
> /Dan
> 
> > Nathan