A step ahead (Mail now integrated in KDE-Pim/Pi)

[Hrw]

I builded KO/PI and KA/PI using OpenEmbedded - but only once - cannot get it build another time.

Installed KO/PI 1.9.2 on Zaurus - it looks better then 1.7.8. Ability to hide allday field is useful. I also like "markers" when scrolling busy day agenda.

Toolbar icons has margins on both sides of image - if they will be smaller then more buttons will fit.

[roderickv]

Thanks slocaus,

I decided to go back to 1.9.1 yesterday. I groped my way through and found all the instances of the address book. (I kept deleting a few instance and they kept comming back..lol) once I found all the ritght address book files and deleted them all, I rebooted and reinstalled 1.9.1, re-mapped, re-imported my addresses in and everything was fine. Late night last night... I agree, I am going to wait for 1.9.3. These guys are so good, and thorough, that you forget that your working with alphas and betas. Anyway, it will keep the excitement  level high as we watch on the sidelines.....

[ulf1]

Great Job zautrix! I am amazed how fast you are updating these!

I am having trouble with the address book however, all of each contact numbers has somehow defaulted to "other" in all of my contact records. And it lock's up each time I try and delete any of them. Is there a way I can delete the file where the addresses are stored so I can re-import from the Outlook CSV file? If so, can you tell me where the file is located? Thanks for all the hard work.

Hello Roderickv,

can you create on Sourceforge two bug entries and attach a piece of your CVS importfile that we can reproduce the change of the phone entries to "other". We do not need the whole file, and if you like you can modify the names and private information. We just want to take a look on the structure.

You can find the addressbook file on the Zaurus usually on <your home dir>/kdepim/apps/kabc/std.vcf
But you can always find the file by checking the "configure resource" dialog

Ulf

[zautrix]

Great Job zautrix! I am amazed how fast you are updating these!

I am having trouble with the address book however, all of each contact numbers has somehow defaulted to "other" in all of my contact records. And it lock's up each time I try and delete any of them. Is there a way I can delete the file where the addresses are stored so I can re-import from the Outlook CSV file? If so, can you tell me where the file is located? Thanks for all the hard work.

Sorry, but in version 1.9.2 is really something odd!

I would recommend  to not use the addressbook of 1.9.2.

Seems so, that I have fixed most of the problems now.

But please provide us with info about a contact, where some fields are imported as "other".

Thx for testing!

z.

[zautrix]

Hi zautrix and ulf,

you are as fast as ever!!! Thanks. I allready posted the bugs to sourceforge.

Here I only want to give an idea about the search in KA-pi:
For example i have 4 entries with "markus". I get only 1 on the right side. No problem. But i have to search the left column to find the Markus, i want. My idea: the left column shows only these entries, which match the search. So it is easier to find the Markus i want. Next example: I only know that the family name of the person is "Markus" (not realy a family name, but i dont remember the name, i searched yesterday). So i write Markus and the result is (i guess) a person with the given name "markus". Now I have to search the hole adressbook. (ok, i can sort now the family name and will find Markus. But then i dont need any search  
Here it is also better to see on the left only the entries which match the search (first i see all, but each letter i write reduces the entries)

Upps, not easy to make it in english! But i understand, that you want to concentrate to one forum.

Thanks for your great work. Sven

Hi Sven,

I think, the way of sorting you are suggesting would be very useful.
But I do not know, how fast this would be on the Zaurus.
When the other bugs are fixed, I will create 500 test-contacts and try out, how fast this kind ( hiding all contacts, that do not match ) of sorting will be.

The other problem of the sorting is already solved.

z.

[zautrix]

 Or do what I plan to do and wait for 1.9.3!  

That is smart! ;-)

[zautrix]

I have changed libmailwrapper, I did not change libetpan.
I will tag the version, if I consider it to be almost bugfree.

OK - when I got KO/PI and KA/PI builded then I'll go for OPIE Mail/PI and will look into libraries changes.

For this moment I have to resolve libqtaux (from opie) and qtcompat include conflicts (will look how it was in KO/PI because it builds here with EXTRA_QMAKE_VARS).

What are your suggestions for the "What's Next" screen?

It has margins on left/right, has

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Allday: [r] urodziny [Jan
         Kowalski]

18:00 - 19:00 Wszystkie grzechy
               sa smiertelneinstead of:

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Allday:
  [r] urodziny [Jan Kowalski]
18:00 - 19:00
  Wszystkie grzechy sa smiertelne
second method is more readable.

KO/PI has margins in many places, long descriptions of GUI elements (they can be shorter and have tooltips added), You use Ctrl-<key> for shortcuts - can it be Fn-<key> on SL-5500?

In "Small Todo list" column headers are bigger then font used to display todos - if You remove that "\/" marker it probably get smaller. I'll try to attach screenshot from my Zaurus.

The header high cannot made be smaller, unfortunately.
I tried this already.
If the header itself is smaller, you would see a gray rectangle which fills out the original size of the header.
Below that rect the displaying of data will start.
Such that nothing is gained.

You suggestions of the WN-view and the FN keys makes sense.
When KA/Pi bugs are fixed, I will try to make the WN-view configurable.
In add the FN key.

z.

[zautrix]

I builded KO/PI and KA/PI using OpenEmbedded - but only once - cannot get it build another time.

Installed KO/PI 1.9.2 on Zaurus - it looks better then 1.7.8. Ability to hide allday field is useful. I also like "markers" when scrolling busy day agenda.

Toolbar icons has margins on both sides of image - if they will be smaller then more buttons will fit.

I agree, the toolbar buttons should be smaller.
But to make the toolbar buttons smaller is not possible.

But now we have a KToolBar in Microkde - in KO/Pi is used the Qt QToolBar.

It should be possible to make the buttons smaller, if the QToolBar is exchanged
 with KToolBar.
Maybe I try this later.
z.

[roderickv]

Ulf1 and zautrix,

I will be happy to do a bug report and attach CSV's, (anything to help the effort) but I want to clarify so that you are not off in the wrong direction, that importing the CSV didn't cause the "Other" in all the phone fields. In fact, I didn't import CSV's when the problem first occured. I downloaded the 1.9.2 files and installed them on my 512 SD card (that had plenty of space on it). All the packages installed fine but KO/PI, I had trouble installing KO/PI on the SD card, it kept saying that it would only run in the main memory. So, I uninstalled everything and rebooted and tried again. The third try was successful with installing all of the packages onto the SD card including KO/PI. But when I went into KA/PI all the phone number fields were "Other" and it was very sluggish. Every time I would try to edit or delete an entry, it would either lock up or just shut down altogether and it consistently shut down when tried to delete any entry. I am sure I corrupted the address field while trying to install the packages onto the SD card. That is why I wanted the path to the address book file. So that I could delete the corrupted address book file and reinstall my contacts from a CSV.

So I am thinking the problem is not from a CSV import attempt, but from a corrupt address file from when I was trying to install everything onto the SD card.

If you still want the CSV I used to restore, I can provide it, but I am not sure how it will help.  Thanks for all you guys are doing!

-Rod-

[slocaus]

Ulf1 and zautrix,

I will be happy to do a bug report and attach CSV's, (anything to help the effort) but I want to clarify so that you are not off in the wrong direction, that importing the CSV didn't cause the "Other" in all the phone fields. In fact, I didn't import CSV's when the problem first occured. I downloaded the 1.9.2 files and installed them on my 512 SD card (that had plenty of space on it)

[..snip..]

So I am thinking the problem is not from a CSV import attempt, but from a corrupt address file from when I was trying to install everything onto the SD card.

I had the same experience, except that everything installed to my SD card (256 Lexar) just fine.  I did the csv import into 1.9.0 and then just copied the std.vcf to the new location with 1.9.1.  It was the upgrade to 1.9.2 that caused all the phone labels to change to "Home".

I've reverted to a backup of 1.9.0 from last week, and copied the mycalendar.ics into KO/Pi, (no contacts have changed for KA/Pi), and all is well, for now.  I can export and upload std.vcf if it will help.

[ulf1]

Ulf1 and zautrix,

I will be happy to do a bug report and attach CSV's, (anything to help the effort) but I want to clarify so that you are not off in the wrong direction, that importing the CSV didn't cause the "Other" in all the phone fields. In fact, I didn't import CSV's when the problem first occured. I downloaded the 1.9.2 files and installed them on my 512 SD card (that had plenty of space on it)

[..snip..]

So I am thinking the problem is not from a CSV import attempt, but from a corrupt address file from when I was trying to install everything onto the SD card.

I had the same experience, except that everything installed to my SD card (256 Lexar) just fine.  I did the csv import into 1.9.0 and then just copied the std.vcf to the new location with 1.9.1.  It was the upgrade to 1.9.2 that caused all the phone labels to change to "Home".

I've reverted to a backup of 1.9.0 from last week, and copied the mycalendar.ics into KO/Pi, (no contacts have changed for KA/Pi), and all is well, for now.  I can export and upload std.vcf if it will help.

Hello Slocaus, roderickv

yes, please upload the CSV file you used that caused the problem with 1.9.2,
or send it to me. My emailadress is uschenk AT fastobjects DOT com

Let me also know which mapping you used for the particular field.

thanks,
Ulf

[slocaus]

Hello Slocaus, roderickv

yes, please upload the CSV file you used that caused the problem with 1.9.2,
or send it to me. My emailadress is uschenk AT fastobjects DOT com

Let me also know which mapping you used for the particular field.

thanks,
Ulf

I did not do a CSV import into 1.9.2;  
I did the only CSV import into 1.9.0, then copied std.vcf from /home/zaurus/Applications/kaddressbook/data/kabc/  to
/home/zaurus/kdepim/apps/kabc/  with version 1.9.1 and all labels were fine.  Then I removed 1.9.1 and installed 1.9.2 and that is when I had all phone labels changed to "Home".

[ulf1]

Hello Slocaus, roderickv

yes, please upload the CSV file you used that caused the problem with 1.9.2,
or send it to me. My emailadress is uschenk AT fastobjects DOT com

Let me also know which mapping you used for the particular field.

thanks,
Ulf

I did not do a CSV import into 1.9.2;  
I did the only CSV import into 1.9.0, then copied std.vcf from /home/zaurus/Applications/kaddressbook/data/kabc/  to
/home/zaurus/kdepim/apps/kabc/  with version 1.9.1 and all labels were fine.  Then I removed 1.9.1 and installed 1.9.2 and that is when I had all phone labels changed to "Home".

Hello Slocaus,

then send me one of the vcard entries of std.vcf that caused the home Problem.

thanks,
Ulf

[sveicken]

Hi zautrix,

I think you are right, my suggested kind of sorting would make the prog to slow.

I have one more suggestion: klicking in the search-box marks (highlights)  the already writen letters there. So writing a new name (for search) would delete the former name and you can faster and easier write and search a new name.

@ulf
And about the problem with the field "other" and deleting an entry crashs KA-pi: I think it is only a problem of getting the version 1.9.1-adressbook into the 1.9.2-prog. I had the same problem: I created in 1.9.1 two test-entries. Then I updated to 1.9.2 and wanted in 1.9.2 delete the test-entries because now I could import my opie-adresses (I did not need the test-entries any more). But I could not delete them, KA-pi always crashed and I had to reboot (sometimes). So I deleted the hole adressbook (deinstalled all, deleted the folders) and installed again 1.9.2 and imported the opie-adresses. Now I can delete entries. So I think it is a problem with "importing" the 1.9.1-adressbook to 1.9.2.

Sven

[jerrybme]

From today's experience, I'm guessing that you shouldn't remove kdepim before upgrading.

I was using 1.9.1 and wanted to try the latest version. I unistalled kdepim & korganizer-alarm then installed the 1.9.2 versions of kapi, kopi, ko-alarm, kmail and the kdemicrodeps.

After reboot, kapi & kmail don't work. I get the following error:

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# kapi
Display size = 480x640
locatelocal: /home/zaurus/kdepim/config/kaddressbookrc
locatelocal: /home/zaurus/kdepim/apps/kaddressbookKActionCollection::setWidget: warning: KAccel is never used in microkde
locatelocal: /home/zaurus/kdepim/config/kabcrcKLibLoader::library could not find library: libmicrokabc_qtopia.so
locatelocal: /home/zaurus/kdepim/apps/kabc/std.vcf
locatelocal: /home/zaurus/kdepim/apps/kaddressbook/kresources/contactrc
#I reninstalled kdepim and then reinstalled kapi & kmail and viola they worked.