January/February KDE PIM summary blog post

Thu Mar 9 14:34:34 GMT 2023

Hi,

Dnia poniedziałek, 6 marca 2023 21:57:05 CET Claudio Cambra pisze:
> Sorry for the late response!
> 
> ### Kalendar
> 
> We have been mainly focusing on behind-the-scenes improvements over the past few 
> months. Part of this has been preparing for the Qt 6 transition, which is still underway.
> 
> On top of this, we have been focusing on bug fixes. Several parts of Kalendar -- mainly the 
> event, task, and contact editors, but others as well -- are more polished and less crash-
> prone.
> 
> - [Do not require leading "0" for hours while creating event](https://invent.kde.org/pim/
> kalendar/-/commit/11e9cdeca165e3833e65b0669997aa7146264c65[1])
> - [show the previous searched text on reopening command bar](https://invent.kde.org/
> pim/kalendar/-/commit/70c78e4f203d0b7395469b3281691ebf99f1c252[2])
> - [Changed comparator function to handle the special case](https://invent.kde.org/pim/
> kalendar/-/commit/7a843719cb63d2b7e7913793fdf08a3ff33825fb[3])
> - [Fixed Create button not working ](https://invent.kde.org/pim/kalendar/-/commit/
> 4eb6e0fd851b49a45758d1e1e092afc6c407198b[4])
> - [Fix loading contact editor](https://invent.kde.org/pim/kalendar/-/commit/
> 65302ac5aefce6bc4cfc685019953d933a7712b2[5])
> - [Fix crash on startup when m_changer is null](https://invent.kde.org/pim/kalendar/-/
> commit/6858a2b1c7188cda288efcdaa772c7cbb05b9282[6])
> - [Fix number of days.](https://invent.kde.org/pim/kalendar/-/commit/
> 59676d532cd3e21e89fb0a2296a399fc39c4c878[7])
> 
> A new contributor, Vanshpreet, has contributed a new feature -- the ability to set event and 
> task reminders at custom times. This should make it easier to notify yourself about 
> important things just when you need to. (See Fig1.png)
> 
> - [Allow setting reminders at custom times](https://invent.kde.org/pim/kalendar/-/commit/
> 593bb9804a931995f45913c02fd89a7d5d060d3b[8])
> 
> We have also proposed several Google Summer of Code projects and there seems to be a 
> lot of interest in them, which is good. Some aspiring students have even submitted 
> patches, which is even better!
> 
> ### LibKGAPI & kdepim-runtime
> 
> After a huge amount of work starting over a year ago, Google contacts are once again 
> working in PIM apps thanks to two MRs that have now been merged:
> 
> - [Replace support for Google's deprecated Contacts API with Google's People API](https://
> invent.kde.org/pim/libkgapi/-/merge_requests/22[9])
> - [Replace use of Google Contacts in Google Groupware with new Google People API]
> (https://invent.kde.org/pim/kdepim-runtime/-/merge_requests/98[10])
> 
> Support for the old Google Contacts API has been dropped and replaced with a new 
> Google contacts implementation that uses the Google People API. This means one can 
> now add, edit, and delete contacts as expected. (See Fig. 2)

This sounds great. May I ask in when it can be expected to be released?

> 
> Additionally, a bug preventing the deletion of Google items (i.e. contacts, tasks, calendar 
> events, etc.) has been fixed and this should now work as expected too.
> 
> Cheers,
> Claudio
> 
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, March 1, 2023 5:06:33 PM CET Volker Krause wrote:
> > On Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2023 17:09:32 CET Volker Krause wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > > 
> > > it's time for the bi-monthly blog post again :)
> > > 
> > > If you have contributed in January or February, 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 me
> > > (https://volkerkrause.eu/2023/01/07/kde-pim-november-december-2022.html),
> > > any volunteers for this one?
> > 
> > Still missing quite some input (looking at e.g. Ingo/Andre for Kleo and
> > Carl/ Claudio for Kalendar), and someone to compile the blog post. A few
> > screenshots would also helpful.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Volker
> 
> 
> 
> --------
> [1] https://invent.kde.org/pim/kalendar/-/commit/
> 11e9cdeca165e3833e65b0669997aa7146264c65
> [2] https://invent.kde.org/pim/kalendar/-/commit/
> 70c78e4f203d0b7395469b3281691ebf99f1c252
> [3] https://invent.kde.org/pim/kalendar/-/commit/
> 7a843719cb63d2b7e7913793fdf08a3ff33825fb
> [4] https://invent.kde.org/pim/kalendar/-/commit/
> 4eb6e0fd851b49a45758d1e1e092afc6c407198b
> [5] https://invent.kde.org/pim/kalendar/-/commit/
> 65302ac5aefce6bc4cfc685019953d933a7712b2
> [6] https://invent.kde.org/pim/kalendar/-/commit/
> 6858a2b1c7188cda288efcdaa772c7cbb05b9282
> [7] https://invent.kde.org/pim/kalendar/-/commit/
> 59676d532cd3e21e89fb0a2296a399fc39c4c878
> [8] https://invent.kde.org/pim/kalendar/-/commit/
> 593bb9804a931995f45913c02fd89a7d5d060d3b
> [9] https://invent.kde.org/pim/libkgapi/-/merge_requests/22
> [10] https://invent.kde.org/pim/kdepim-runtime/-/merge_requests/98
> 

-- 
Best regards
Sławek Kapłoński
slawek at kaplonski.pl
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