September/October KDE PIM summary blog post

[Claudio Cambra]

Updates on Kalendar below :)

New view modes:
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For low-performance or battery-powered devices, we have introduced a new 
"basic" mode for views. This mode replaces the swipe-based calendar views with 
static versions which, while not swipeable, are significantly faster and less 
resource-intensive. This should provide significant improvements for those 
using Kalendar on lower-power devices, or simply for those who do not need 
animations or swipe support in their calendar.

These new view modes can be accessed in Kalendar's settings, with each view 
having a separate toggle to enable its "basic" mode. 

Performance improvements:
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The data models used to fetch and present incidence data from our backend have 
been refactored and are now much more efficient when things change behind the 
scenes. This should mean big efficiency gains when you are editing events and 
tasks, which should translate to fewer stutters and reduced power consumption.

Sidebar responsiveness:
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Kalendar's sidebar now is significantly improved in narrow windows. It 
collapses into a narrow strip when the window is resized to a narrow size and 
becomes modal, expanding as an overlay instead of squishing the other parts of 
the window. This should make it easier than ever to use Kalendar with window 
tiling.

Bugfixes:
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Major bugfixes to all major components of Kalendar, many of which fix both UI 
gremlins as well as major crashes. Please make sure to update to the latest 
version of the 22.08 release!

On Wednesday, 26 October 2022 17:19:50 CEST Volker Krause wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> it's time for the bi-monthly blog post again :)
> 
> If you have contributed in September or October, 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.
> 
> The last one was edited by Clau
> (https://claudiocambra.com/2022/09/15/kde-pim-in-july-and-august/), IIRC
> Kévin you did already volunteer for this one?
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> Volker