July/August KDE PIM summary blog post

[Carl Schwan]

Only text for now, I will post some screenshots tomorrow as I'm currently using
porting my Plasma session to Plasma 6 and currently PIM didn't finish compiling yet

## Merkuro

As part of the Gear 23.08, we renamed Kalendar to Merkuro since the application
not only lets you manage your events and tasks any more, but also your contacts
and there is in progress work to also support email.

For the Gear 23.08, we also did a complete revamp of the look of the application
and we split Merkuro in two, so you can have a window with your calendar and
another one with your contacts at the same time.

In term of improvement that will arrive in Gear 23.12, we made the folder list in
Merkuro Mail sorted the exact same way as KMail by implementing
MailCommon::IKernel., added support for libgravatar and made it possible to edit
your IMAP and Identity accounts (including your crypto settings).

## MimeTreeParser & Kleopatra

We moved the mime tree parser code from Merkuro to a new repository to
reuse it in Kleopatra to display encrypted email directly from Kleopatra and share
as much code as possible between the two projects.

This lead to various improvement in this MimeTreeParser implementation, in
particular around how we handle encryption and support for GPG trust levels.

## GpgME & Craft

There is on progress work to update the GnuPG stack on craft and also make GpgME
C++ bindings compile with MSVC (the Microsoft compiler). This would allow to 
bring back the PIM stack on Windows.

This work on MimeTreeParser and Craft/GpgME was was founded by g10 Code.

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023, at 5:24 PM, Volker Krause wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> it's time for the bi-monthly blog post again :)
> 
> If you have contributed in July or August, 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 KF releases), and basic commit stats for the PIM repositories.
> 
> The last one was edited by me (https://volkerkrause.eu/2023/07/05/kde-pim-may-june-2023.html), any volunteers for this one?
> 
> Note that thanks to Ingo's work this can now also be done on the
> kontact.kde.org blog instead of requiring a personal blog set up and
> aggregated on planet.kde.org, so this is just a merge request to https://
> invent.kde.org/websites/kontact-kde-org away for everyone :)
> 
> I'm not around next week so I'd really appreciate if someone else than me can 
> take the lead on getting this one done.
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> Volker
> 
> *Attachments:*
>  • changes-jul-aug-2023.txt
>  • stats-jul-aug-2023.txt
>  • signature.asc