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Mail, calendars, notes, tasks, travel... Find out what developers of KDE's personal information management suite of apps have been up to. (cdn.masto.host)
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Mail, calendars, notes, tasks, travel... Find out what developers of KDE's personal information management suite of apps have been up to.

Get the breakdown of all the new features, and how everything has been made more reliable, faster and better.

https://kontact.kde.org/blog/2024/2024-07-01-kde-pim-may-june-2024/

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I am really excited about this!

A few questions:

  1. Will this be developed in parallel to #Kontact, are the same devs working on it, is only the UI changing and background things kept the same? Will it replace Kontact some time, swapping out, or getting the name?
  2. Is #CalDAV support possible currently, in the past or planned? It is a major dealbreaker for me currently.
  3. Are CalDAV features supported by #DAVx5 planned? Like journals?
  4. The #Flatpak is kinda bundled in the "Kontact" Flatpak. Will this change?
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

@boredsquirrel @kde 1. While some devs (like me) works on both Kontact and Merkuro devs, other are only working on one of them. I don't see Kontact disappearing anytime soon.

  1. CalDAV is definitively supported

  2. Journals works in KOrganizer. It's quite unlikely I will add that to Merkuro mail any time soon as I have no real use for them and I don't want to makes the UI more complex.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks! And does Merkuro use the same backend things as the older Kontact suite?

And if CalDAV is supported, where is it added? On Fedora Kinoite I have no support, only Nextcloud etc. I woule file a bug at the correct place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@boredsquirrel Yes Merkuro uses the same backend. And we (Merkuro dev) are contributing to improve it which benefit all the Kontact users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks! Have a nice day :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That's good, I like the classic KDE apps

[–] brbposting 5 points 4 months ago

Beautiful! Impressed y’all were able to find such an excellent UI designer to contribute.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] Great to see KDE giving the PIM some love. I think it's one of the areas on which KDE has been lacking. Great work!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Quick question, does Marknote save in normal markdown? In other words could i sync the folder it saves to and edit the notes seamlessly with something like apostrophe or Qownnotes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Impressive, kudos to the @[email protected] community for that!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm a pretty satisfied Kontact user right now. I appreciate the integration of everything, but the one thing I would really look at improving is the RAM usage of Akonadi server, it eats up quite a lot of RAM for a program/backend meant just to integrate that information. Are there plans to improve that, or will Merkuro improve on that at all?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Merkuro is built on Akonadi, so in that sense there will be no change.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] el calendiario se puede sincronizar con plugins en WordPress. Estamos usando plugins de eventos para poner cada semana la programación de una Televisión.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

¿Puedes mostrarnos vuestro proyecto y explicar un poquito cómo lo hacéis?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

@Bro666
Ahora estoy en la calle, simplemente tenemos en WordPress un plugin donde pones evento, duració, color en un calendario de lunes-domingo por horas en tipo cuadrantes y en versión móvil muestra la linea temporal desde el ahora y mostrado en cascada. El frontend muy parecido a #SimpleCalendarPro para #android el backend si se diferencia.

Ahora este calendario no es publico porque aún estamos definiendo los eventos y horas.

Cuando enchufe el pc mando más.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I apologize. What is the KDE community?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No need to apologise. Take a look:

https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/ https://kde.org

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

KDE: Kommunity of Developers and Endusers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've always heard it stood for k desktop environment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

We phased out "KDE" as an acronym years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Itinerary is a terrible name for a terrific app that made traveling way less stressful for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Wrong place, maybe, but Kontakt refuses to work for me for mail. I added the proton bridge config, but there are no folders in the mail view. The standalone Kmail does work. If anyone has troubleshooting tips. Maybe it's some flatpack vs native thing, idk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

What are the plans for Trojita? It had IMAP feature complete e-Mail without the performance problems that have a tradition in KDE PIM. I saw no more releases since KDE took over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

KDE does not "take over" projects. Project leaders can request becoming part of KDE and gain all the benefits from belonging to a bigger community: infrastructures, translators, services, etc. But if the original developers do not push their own project forward, it is unlikely anyone else will.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

@Bro666 But I assumed there was a strategic decision involved. If you embrace an IMAP client while you already had one, I assume consolidation will follow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That is not how KDE works. KDE is not a company and it doesn't absorb or embrace other projects. If you have a project you would like to develop using the advantages afforded by KDE, you can put it through the incubation process and then, when it passes, work on it yourself. The other KDE contributors that join you (if they join you), do so under their own steam. There is no management telling people where to go or what to work on, so if you stop working on your own project and have been unable to attract other contributors, development will stop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

@MatthiasMailaender @Bro666 There is no new Trojita release because they still use QtWebkit which is dead. There is a merge requests to move to QtWebengine but it is stalled for a few months.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] Yes - gets better with each release. Great work!!!!