March/April KDE PIM summary - images

Tue May 3 10:41:16 BST 2022

Moin,

I made a screenshot of selecting the color scheme in kontact:
https://files.netzguerilla.net/index.php/s/3ZLZfi6fdCLaozz

maybe someone else can make one from of the unified reminder dialog? It is not 
running inside the docker environment... 

Reuse one from kitinerary report.

Also there are screenshots of improved pinentry-qt:
https://dev.gnupg.org/T5867#155617

regards,

hefee

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On Montag, 2. Mai 2022 18:01:56 CEST Volker Krause wrote:
> Here's the current draft for review:
> 
> 
> Since the [last
> report](https://blog.sandroknauss.de/kde-pim-Januar-februar-2022/) two
> month ago a lot has happened around KDE's personal information management
> applications again. More than 1300 changes by more than 25 people resulted
> in many improvements as well as the 22.04 feature release. Here are some of
> the highlights.
> 
> ### Kontact
> 
> * All Kontact applications can now dynamically change the color scheme at
> runtime and have a fullscreen mode now.
> * Searching in many places is aware of diacritics and accents now, and can
> ignore those. This means e.g. searching for "resume" also finds “résumé” and
> vice versa, which can be particularly useful in international communication
> where those details can get lost due to not everyone even having the the
> input methods to type things correctly.
> 
> Ongoing since quite some time is the continuous effort to prepare the code
> base for the transition to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6. There also has been
> work on improving the CI coverage by introducing pre-integration checks for
> Windows as well where possible, and by introducing stricter CI checks for
> unit tests.
> 
> ### Calendaring
> 
> * Kalendar and KOrganizer now finally use the same unified reminder daemon,
> replacing the previous app-specific implementations.
> * Damien Caliste added support for the iCal notebook feature. This enables
> for instance to get a list of important incidences.
> * Alois Spitzbart made KHolidays read all categories from a holiday
> definition and fixed cases where the same holidays would be shown several
> times (bug 441275).
> 
> #### Kalendar
> 
> * Several UI tweaks and fixes have been made to make certain interactive
> elements clear, such as resizeable drawers and headers, which now become
> highlighted on hover/click.
> * Hovering over tasks now highlights said tasks in the color of their parent
> calendar.
> * The week view/three day view/day view has seen changes to its layout code
> that should improve the positioning and sizing of events and tasks that take
> place in shorter timespans and that overlap with each other.
> * There is an ongoing effort to refactor and move around commonly used
> calendaring code with the goal to reduce Kalendar's dependencies, and in
> particular any remaining widget-based UI code paths that aren't well suited
> for mobile use.
> 
> #### KOrganizer
> 
> * The “floating” time zone is supported properly.  A floating event occurs
> at a certain time of day, regardless of your computer's time zone
> setting.  If you create a floating event named “Second Breakfast”
> starting at 9:30, travel to Minas Tirith, and change your system's time
> zone to “Gondor”, “Second Breakfast” will still appear at 9:30 on your
> calendar.
> * Some buggy programs create ICS files containing events that do not have
> Unique IDs.  KOrganizer can now import such files (bug 339726).
> * If KOrganizer can't import a file containing the ancient vCalendar
> format, the error messages that it produce are more informative (bug
> 328976).
> * In the Incidence Editor, `Tab` and `Shift-Tab` move directly from the
> Calendar menu to the Summary field and back (bug 331543).
> * When the Incidence Editor edits an instance that was created from a
> template, it no longer resets the start, end, or due dates (bug 332048).
> * Pressing the “Today” button causes the Month view to show today's
> month;  previously, it would sometimes show the previous month (bug
> 333066).
> * The user's preferences for “icons to use” in the Agenda and Month
> views are preserved when KOrganizer restarts (bug 449473).
> * Progress indicators in the todo tree view are no longer sometimes
> wrongly rendered vertically.
> 
> ### Kleopatra
> 
> TODO
> 
> ### KMail
> 
> * Fix KMail not displaying calendar invites properly (bug 452480, will be
> part of 22.04.1).
> * Correctly check if an SMTP server supports Delivery Status Notifications
> (DSN) before using that.
> * Fix travel information extraction for certain combinations of email and
> text codecs used in Asia.
> 
> ### KAlarm
> 
> * Move all Akonadi dependencies into a plugin, to enable KAlarm to be run by
> users who don't use Akonadi.
> * Make KAuth an optional dependency.
> * Move kalarmcal library from its own repository into kalarm.
> * Remove all 'speak' functions if text-to-speech not available at build
> time. * When default resources are created on first run, ensure they are
> enabled. * Fixed some UI bugs in the Preferences dialog.
> * Display a resource's alarms if it is disabled and re-enabled.
> 
> ### Itinerary
> 
> There has been quite some activity around [KDE Itinerary](https://
> apps.kde.org/itinerary)
> as well, as you'll find in its dedicated [summary blog post]({{ site.baseurl
> }}{% link _posts/2022-04-02-kde-itinerary-february-march-2022.md %}).
> 
> In very recent news, we are unfortunately no longer able to publish updates
> in the Google Play store, due to KDE Itinerary being able to store health
> certificates. New rules by Google do not allow such a feature unless you
> are a government or public health entity.
> 
> The only way around that would be building
> a separate version just for the Play store with that feature as well as any
> references to it in the application metadata removed. That's something our
> build and deployment pipeline doesn't support at this point though.
> 
> KDE Itinerary in the Play store will be therefore be stuck at 21.12.3 for
> the foreseeable future, for continuing to receive updates we recommend
> [KDE's F-Droid repositories](https://community.kde.org/Android/FDroid)
> instead.
> 
> ### Contacts
> 
> * Kevin Kofler make sure, that it is possible to set the birthday again via
> QML (bug 446665).
> 
> ### Help us make Kontact even better!
> 
> Take a look at some of the junior jobs that we have! They are simple, mostly
> programming tasks that don’t require any deep knowledge or understanding of
> Kontact, so anyone can work on them. Feel free to pick any task from the
> list and reach out to us by
> [email](https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim), [Matrix
> #kontact:kde.org](https://community.kde.org/Matrix) or IRC
> #kontact:libera.chat! We’ll be happy to guide you and answer all your
> questions. [Read more
> here…](https://www.dvratil.cz/2018/08/kde-pim-junior-jobs-are-opened)
> On Sonntag, 1. Mai 2022 18:47:45 CEST Volker Krause wrote:
> > That's quite some material already, I'll try to assemble that into a post
> > tomorrow.
> > 
> > I'd still have two wishes though:
> > - Ingo, any chance we can get a summary of the Kleopatra work? Quite a few
> > things happened there again.
> > - Does anyone have some vaguely related screenshots? So far this is just a
> > big wall of text.
> > 
> > Thank you!
> > Volker
> > 
> > On Monday, 25 April 2022 17:02:43 CEST Volker Krause wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > > 
> > > it's time for the bi-monthly blog post again :)
> > > 
> > > If you have contributed in March or April, a summary of your most
> > > noteworthy changes would be helpful, bonus points for corresponding
> > > screenshots or links to already existing blog posts. If you noticed
> > > something noteworthy during the past two months, feel free to add that
> > > as
> > > well of course!
> > > 
> > > To help refresh your memories and to make sure we aren't missing
> > > anything
> > > important, there's two files attached here, an auto-generated detailed
> > > changelog (this tends to be 30-50% of the commits, using David F's
> > > changelog scripts for KF5 releases), and basic commit stats for the PIM
> > > repositories.
> > > 
> > > Secondly, we need help with compiling, editing and eventually publishing
> > > the blog post. Ideally this rotates between a number of people so that
> > > everyone has to do that only once per year or so.
> > > 
> > > Sandro did the last one
> > > (https://blog.sandroknauss.de/kde-pim-Januar-februar-2022/), who wants
> > > to
> > > do this one?
> > > 
> > > Thanks for you help!
> > > Volker