[kdepim-users] ktimetracker 4.1 Plans

[Thorsten Staerk]

On Thursday 07 Feb 2008 4:32:25 am Ingo Klöcker wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> below you'll find our plans for KDE PIM in KDE 4.1. Contrary to what I
>> have been hoping for (and what I have been saying more than once) the
>> KDE PIM applications will not be ported to Akonadi in KDE 4.1. I hope
>> you are still looking forward to the first KDE 4 based release of KDE
>> PIM.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ingo
>>
>> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>>
>> Subject: [Kde-pim] KDE PIM 4.1 Plans
>> Date: Saturday 02 February 2008
>> From: Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>
>> To: KDE PIM <kde-pim at kde.org>
>>
>> We had a discussion about the plans for KDE PIM in KDE 4.1 at the
>> Osnabrueck meeting and came up with the following:
>>
>> KDE 4.1 will be released in July, feature freeze is end of April. This
>> will include KDE PIM as the first KDE 4 based release of KDE PIM. We
>> plan to include the following features:
>>
>> - Stable release of all applications (including Kontact, KMail,
>> KOrganizer, KAddressbook, and all the other KDE PIM apps) ported to
>> KDE 4
>> - Applications will still use the KResources framework
>> - Merge of all the features of the enterprise branch
>> - Initial release of the Windows and Mac OS ports of KDE PIM
>>
>> The plan for Akonadi is to make KDE PIM 4.1 the Akonadi Platform
>> release. That means that libakonadi and the required infrastructure is
>> moved to kdepimlibs, so that third-party applications and resources can
>> be developed based on Akonadi.
>>
>> This also will be the base for an incremental port of the existing KDE
>> PIM apps to Akonadi. The goal is to do this in trunk by refactoring the
>> existing applications, but keeping the apps stable.
>>
>> The KDE 4 version of Mailody already uses Akonadi. It's the first full
>> application which makes use of the new backend infrastructure. Mailody
>> is likely to be released once the Akonadi Platform is available in a
>> stable version.
>>
>> To make migration easier there also exists a bridge which makes Akonadi
>> data available through the KResources framework. It might be nice to
>> also implement an Akonadi agent who can talk to the old KResources.
>>
>> There are also first Akonadi resources and plasmoids in playground. We
>> hope that more of this will emerge as the platform gets more stable,
>> complete and available.
>>
>> The long-term mission of Akonadi is to provide a cross-platform
>> cross-desktop storage service for KDE PIM data. So it's not meant to be
>> limited to KDE. APIs for other environments or other programming
>> languages than C++ are very welcome.
>>
>> If there are questions or comments about the KDE PIM 4.1 plans, please
>> don't hesitate to speak up and discuss the plan. I personally think
>> this will be an exciting release, and by not trying to do the full port
>> to Akonadi at once, I'm pretty confident that we will get a stable and
> > usable version of Kontact with 4.1.
> 
> There is no information about KArm/KTimeTracker. Is anything planned?
A lot new is planned for ktimetracker, according to 
http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Schedules/KDE4/4.1_Feature_Plan
the following is already complete:
- drag&drop
- managing history
- file management (involving the often-demanded menu item file->load)
- tracking tasks by active applications (your window focus changes -> your 
task changes)
- column-specific whatsthis-help
- combined search and add task widget

you may also mark this day, 2008-02-09, in your calendar as the day where 
ktimetracker's kontact plugin was ported to KDE 4

There is a now also a comprehensive help on ktimetracker on 
wiki.kde.org/ktimetracker where all users can participate in creating the 
greatest help texts ever!
regards
 
Thorsten
> -- 
> Cheers!
> kitts
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