Knode source code

[Wolfgang Bauer]

Hi!

Somebody (Oliver Trichet) actually ported knode to Qt5/KF5 years ago, I found 
it a while ago at https://cgit.kde.org/clones/kdepim/otrichet/knode.git/ and 
https://cgit.kde.org/scratch/otrichet/knode.git/ .

Unfortunately, as these were just personal scratch repos they apparently got 
lost in the move to gitlab.
However, copies of them exist at github:
1) https://github.com/d-graef/kde-knode
2) https://github.com/d-graef/KNode5

The first contains the actual porting work and is a clone of the full kdepim 
repo, the latter is based upon it and contains knode stand-alone.

Repo 2 also contains a patch by me to make it build with the latest KDEPIM 
libraries at the time (2017), I additionally have local patches to build it 
with the current versions.

So repo 2 would probably be the best starting point.

The state in short: subscribing to news groups and reading articles works, but 
writing articles does not (IIRC the code is disabled, and probably still needs 
porting work).
Of course there may be other glitches and/or features still disabled.

And it should be noted that it also requires the NNTP kio-slave that was part 
of kdepim-runtime in the past, but has been removed in 16.08.0.
But the code from an older version (16.04.3) can easily be built standalone.
I think it probably would make sense to add it to knode itself though, if it 
is going to be revived.

Although, I just tried it again (haven't used it in a while), and it crashed 
while fetching the list of newsgroups. :-(
Maybe relevant output:
kf.kio.core: finished() called twice! Please fix the kio_nntp KIO slave

So it probably needs adjustment to recent changes in KIO (it certainly still 
worked a couple of months ago). I'll have a look tomorrow and see if I can fix 
it.

Kind Regards,
Wolfgang