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Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] KPilot Developer's notes for December 27th
From:       Adriaan de Groot <adridg () cs ! kun ! nl>
Date:       2001-12-30 21:45:37
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Hey David,

Welcome back!

On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, David Bishop wrote:
> On Thursday 27 December 2001 07:01 am, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > [Two sets of notes follow, plus a repeat of the odd-jobs CFA]
> >
> > KPilot Developer's notes for december 27th 2001
> > ===============================================
>
> I've been out of town quite a bit lately, but it looks like I'll have plenty
> of time to work on this all next week.  My boss is gone, Monday through
> Friday! Whopee! ;-)

As usual, cvs update and check the ChangeLog to see what's changed in the
time since the last Developer's Notes. You may be surprised at the amount
of action.

> > Yet another odd job: someone (David?) needs to check all the ToolTips
> > in the .ui files for the conduits with Qt *2*'s designer. And we need
> > to check that all the configurations are in fact saved properly. Testers?
>
> Consider this job taken.  Menial jobs that require no skills are right up my
> alley B-)

Well, you'll have to *write* tool tips, which is hardly menial. I think
the config-saving stuff has been tested now, and the config is also used
(there were some places in conduits where the items were written to
different keys thatn where they were read from, leading to erroneous
results. I've fixed (or am fixing) that by moving the strings for all keys
and groups to locally-central locations (like the factory class for
conduits))

> > In these complex modern final days, (to quote Pogo), what's up?
>
> I didn't know anybody else quoted Pogo.  *Now* what am I going to use for

Don't worry, 't ain't no shame to be stupid (Mouse, in "The Incompleat
Pogo", but I must say I've only got that + 1953, so my selections are a
bi5t limited).

> obscure reference material?

Um, quantum physics?

> > The bad conduits:
> >
> > * conduits/popmail/*
> >   - Still no .ui file and not many tooltips, but you *can* configure
> >   this conduit. No sync though.
>
> I'll try and get this done as well.  I swear I have a copy of a mostly
> working .ui around here somewhere.....

That'd be nice, (have you learned C++ yet? then you can do the behavioral
part as well :) ) although the conduit now works well enough for sending
mail through KMail. (See the ChangeLog)

> > * conduits/todoconduit/
> >   - This one is seriously deprecated and I'll try to remove it soon.
>
> Is it going to be replaced, rewritten, or removed?

Removed. It's just the directory; all the code has been moved / merged
with the vcalconduit, which has a lot of similar functionality.

> > * conduits/vcalconduit/*
> >   - It's got a .ui file which is used badly and which is missing layouts.
> >   Not a hint of saving configurations though.
>
> I'll also try and tackle this.  So far, I'm up to Wednesday ;-)

Sorry, it's been tackled already. Joys of Qt designer: right-click on
dialog, choose "Align on a Grid" and voila! Maybe there was an extra line
of code in there as well. It saves its condif and fscks up your KOrganizer
calendar during a sync.

> Darn, no real text editor on this machine, just emacs.  *rimshot*  Heh, if I
> get some spare time this next week after goofing off and playing
> hide-and-go-seek in the cubicle aisles, I'll go through these B-)

Um, cubicles? The joys of europe (not to mention working at a catholic
university): 8 days of forced vacation between xmas and jan 3rd.

> Happy Holidays, and to all a good night!

That's Dickens, right?

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| Adriaan de Groot             | Drinken, in een bepaalde tijd symbolisch,
| http://www.cs.kun.nl/~adridg | is in een andere tijd zuipen - Wittgenstein

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