July/August KDE PIM summary blog post

[Claudio Cambra]

Hi,

On 30/8/23 05:15, Carl Schwan wrote:
> 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).
Small addendum -- a big chunk of the identity GUI work has gone into 
KIdentityManagement, so other QtQuick-first PIM apps should be able to 
benefit :)
>
> ## 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