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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    KPilot Developer's notes for December 20th 2000
From:       Adriaan de Groot <adridg () sci ! kun ! nl>
Date:       2000-12-20 11:56:36
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KPilot Developer's notes for december 20th 2000
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It looks like kdepim and KPilot aren't going to make the 2.1 release.
Darn. This does give us more time to deal with docs and bugfixes.
Every time I get something done though I find I've discovered two
new things to do :(. I hope Lukas will help out with a lot of the
i18n stuff though, since there is a LOT that needs fixing and I don't have 
that much time. [I did some pleasant time-wasting by adding features to 
konsole, bad bad bad]
 
Done:
 
* Moved all the (english) docs to the correct place.
* More doc fixes: use &kpilot; and &pilot; properly, added screen shots for
  various conduit setups. The docs still aren't complete but they're a
  darn sight better than they were.
* Handed the docs off to Lauri for polishing.
* Modal dialogs need exec() instead of show()
* Changes in kdelibs caused some dialogs to hang in slotCancel()
* Changes in includes means we have to include kdebug.h ourselves
* Get rid of cerr and use kdDebug or kdWarning or kdError as appropriate.
  There are still a very few cerrs left in places where we can't rely on
  kdDebug().
* Added #ifdef DEBUG to the debug sections of code. So KPilot now compiles
  without debugging stuff. I realise now that I should have stuck to the
  KDE kdDebug() guidelines, but, um, I didn't know they existed when the
  port from KDE1 to KDE2 started. Darn.
* Figured out a nice DCOP interface with Wynn (KNotes) for the KNotes conduit
 
ToDo:
 
* More vcal work
* Clean up more of the butt-ugly parts of the code base
* Detect memo-too-large in knotes conduit
* Try to reduce number of updates in knotes conduit
* Finally take a look at kab or whatever for the address book conduit.
  Should probably talk to Greg about this one too.
* Tell the KOrganizer docs people about KPilot
* Fix the button-enabling in the address app
* KPilot is an i18n nightmare
  - The const char *s in the pilot databases can be addressed most
    easily, I think.
  - KPilotLink::doFullBackup should cause i18n people to run away
  - get rid of most of the strcpy, strcat, etc. But not all!
    We're stuck with pilot-link, after all.
* The messages need validation - Pilot vs pilot, HotSync vs whatever
* The password dialog in the popmail conduit is probably a very bad idea. I'm 
  sure kdesud or somesuch stores passwords for us and we should use it.

-- 
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Probably hacking at KDE2.

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