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« on: September 21, 2004, 08:25:37 am »
Hi,

thanks to all testers of the previous versions!

I hope we will soon have a stable 2.0 version.

Now Addressbook syncing is available!

Please test!

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...ckage_id=112604

New in 1.9.6:

Fixed some bugs.
Addressbook syncing now possible!
You can sync with Sharp DTM on the Zaurus and
with another *.vcf file, like another KA/Pi file or a *.vcf file from the KDE-KAdressbook desktop version.
Known problem with Sharp_DTM sync: Categories KA/Pi -> SharpDTM is not yet working.

Please read KO/Pi sync HowTo to get some information how to sync.
Documentation in KA/Pi about syncing will follow.

Windows version will follow.

New in 1.9.5b:

Added windows versions to the release.
Fixed some minor bugs.
Added config settings (font settings) to OM/Pi.

New in 1.9.5a:

Fixed a bug in KO/Pi in the SharpDTM sync of version 1.9.5.
Fixed an old bug in KO/Pi in the SharpDTM sync when writing back the data to DTM.
Fixed some small bugs.
KA/Pi shows now the birthday in summary view.
Now OM/Pi and KA/Pi are using the date format defined in KO/Pi
for displaying dates.

New in 1.9.5:

Many bugfixes.
Better mail downloading in OM/Pi.

First experimental alpha version of sync of KO/Pi with mobile phones.
See gammu documentation for supported phones.
You need to install the package kammu_1.9.5_arm.ipk for sync of KO/Pi with mobile phones. kammu_1.9.5_arm.ipk needs libbluetooth and libsdp.
Quick hint how to use:
NOTE: MOBILE PHONE SYNC IS EXPERIMENTAL!
Install kammu_1.9.5_arm.ipk , libbluetooth and libsdp.
Create syncprofile - mobile device
Remove entry for model. (Leave empty ).
Enable infrared on Zaurus and your Phone.
Sync.
To get a more detailed log, start kopi from konsole.


Changes from 1.9.3 to 1.9.4
WARNING:
PLEASE BACKUP ALL YOUR DATA!
We have changed a lot and maybe there are some unknown problems.

SYNC DATA STORAGE HAS CHANGED!
If you have synced already with version 1.9.3, you will get duplicated entries after the first sync, because the syncing of version 1.9.3 is not detected.
After another sync the behaviour should be as expected when syncing.

SOLUTION:
If you have already synced with 1.9.3, please remove duplicate entries on one of the devices before the first sync. After the first sync, you will have the same data on both devices again.
And syncing should work as usual.( I.e. no entries are duplicated ).
(This change was introduced to make it possible to sync with mobile phones, which will be available later (maybe in 4 weeks).

You need the kmicrokdelibs_1.9.4_arm.ipk as a base for the other programs.
If you get the error: "Install only possible in main memory", just try it again to install it on SD card. That worked for me. And it was reported that rebooting Qtopia did help in this case as well.

As programs are available:
KO/Pi (korganizer ipk) - a calendar program.
KA/Pi (kaddressbook ipk ) - an addressbook
OM/Pi (kopiemail ipk ) an email program with pop/smtp and IMAP support.

An alarm notification program ( korganizer-alarm ipk ) for KO/Pi that notifies you about alarms, even if the Zaurus is in suspend mode.
(If you do not see an icon in the taskbar after installing korganizer-alarm, please restart Qtopia)

All the applications are installed in a "Pim" TAB.
If this TAB is new on your system, you can get an icon in this TAB by installing pim_TAB_icon_1.9.4_arm.ipk


All the application are integrated.
Such that you can choose in KO/Pi the attendees of a  meeting from the addresses in KA/Pi. When you click in KA/Pi on the email address, OM/Pi is started to write the mail.

HINT:
If you install KPhone/Pi 0.9.7, it will be called, if you click in KA/Pi on a phone number.



What's new?

SYNC DATA STORAGE HAS CHANGED!
If you have synced already with version 1.9.3, you will get duplicated entries after the first sync, because the syncing of version 1.9.3 is not detected.
After another sync the behaviour should be as expected when syncing.

SOLUTION:
If you have already synced with 1.9.3, please remove duplicate entries on one of the devices before the first sync. After the first sync, you will have the same data on both devices again.
And syncing should work as usual.( I.e. no entries are duplicated ).
(This change was introduced to make it possible to sync with mobile phones, which will be available later (maybe in 4 weeks).

New in OM/Pi:
When copying(i.e. downloading mails) , you can specify, that only mails of a given size should be downloaded. Added mail copy possibility for selected mails.

New in KO/Pi:
French is now available for KO/Pi.
Choose menu:Actions - Configure:TAB locale
Quick filter access now available via the menu.
Syncing has changed.
Phone sync available soon.
Not much changes, I cannot remember them ...

New in KA/Pi:
Beaming possible.
Sharp DTM readonly access possible( create a new DTM resource );
Better searching possible.
Search is performed only after pressing the return key.
Use wildcard * to specify parts of a name.

Better name/email selection dialog (called from KO/Pi or OM/Pi). In this dialog, now searching is possible. Like in KA/Pi, use return key and wildcard * .

A big improvement is the new management of the contact access.
In version 1.9.3, every application was using their own addressbook access data.
That means, the addressbook was loaded up to three times in the memory, when accessed by  KA/Pi, KO/Pi and OM/Pi.
That was wasting of memory, if you had several hundreds of contacts.

Now only KA/Pi accesses the addressbook.
If KO/Pi or OM/Pi want to get some name/email data, they request KA/Pi to open the  name/email selection dialog and send it back to them.
If you click on an attendee in a meeting, its contact data is displayed in KA/Pi directly.
That means, if KO/Pi or OM/Pi want to access contact data, KA/Pi is started first.

New in the KO/Pi alarm applet:
Configure your own timer popup menu!
(Text and minutes for timer countdown)
Just edit the file
(yourhomedir)/.kopialarmtimerrc
and start/stop a timer to get a new menu with the data of this file.
« Last Edit: September 21, 2004, 08:27:18 am by zautrix »

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« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2004, 09:04:41 am »
COOL!

Thanks for this new version.

So far something that would be nice is that addressbook would (just like korganizer) have a filter (default) to disable showing the sync events. Now every user has to do that for himself.

Anothing this is after pressing edit categories in kaddressbook (through edit contact) the previous selection of categories is lost.

Furthermore I have to say I am very pleased with this realease..

Thanks
« Last Edit: September 21, 2004, 09:37:36 am by vdkuil »

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« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2004, 09:42:01 am »
Can You implement syncing over SSH? I recent KO/PI I cannot see how to sync other then local file so I have to copy my KOrganizer/KDE 3.3 kal.ics to Zaurus, sync with KO/PI and copy to desktop. With Sync over SSH I can skip copying...
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« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2004, 09:46:30 am »
Kopi has syncing available over ssh (as wel as ka/pi has).

Select remote file  in the profile kind groupbox (go to synchronization preferences).
Than you can select scp/ftp to use syncing.
You need to add the public key of your zaurus to the machine you are syncing with.
And as far as I can tell you can only start syncing on the zaurus.

I really would like a way to start that from my desktop machine since navigation on that one is a lot easier

Hope this helps..

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« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2004, 09:52:23 am »
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Can You implement syncing over SSH? I recent KO/PI I cannot see how to sync other then local file so I have to copy my KOrganizer/KDE 3.3 kal.ics to Zaurus, sync with KO/PI and copy to desktop. With Sync over SSH I can skip copying...
I don't understand your question.

That should be possible already.
The FAQ says:

Q:
How can I sync via ssh?
A:
You must have installed a ssh client on the machine KO/Pi is running.
You must have a ssh server running on the remote machine.
You must have configured your access to the server such that you can
log in from console on the server without a password.
For that reason you have to put some keys on the servers home dir.
Please read docu of ssh how to do that.
There is a detailed ssh howto available at
http://oek.fbl.fh-wiesbaden.de/zaurus/

You have to create a "extern file" syncprofile and specify the pre/post sync commands, which actually do the copying.

Does that answer your question?

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« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2004, 11:17:34 am »
yes - I will try it later

thx

version in OpenEmbedded will be updated soon - I don't have time to track ZUG everyday so sometimes I miss new releases.

UPD: just added KDE/PIM PI to SF monitor so this time I can react faster.
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« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2004, 12:33:52 pm »
About windows version... there is no possibility to choice configuration folder..
By default, under NT is C:/winnt/profile/name/kdepim , but at office, i work with more than one desktop, and my personnal files are on F:/Profile (F: is a virtual personnal driver, independant of physical desktop). So with last version, i can have KoPi in F:/kopi, but my configuration files and calendar must be duplicate in each desktop.
So, 2 options "default" and "executable path" may be a good solution ??
It's possible...  
PS: i suggest on Softmaker forum to see KoPi as a good application.. Texmaker is "a must have" application, but interface is too big or too small. Ko/Pi is a good example for his interface (choice of font size... except pick date editor under windows  ).
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« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2004, 05:32:15 pm »
Another great release, I'm really enjoying it. Many, many thanks.

Couple of notes:
  • In KO/PI, My "Menu" key is still selecting from the Icon bar not the menu bar. And no-one else reports this. It must be me doing something stupid, right?
  • The bug I previously encountered where re-opening closed TODOs caused a crash has been fixed! Yay!. However, since I've got "fastload" on for KO/PI,  I've now got no way of closing it down. Which is very irritating when I've changed a config setting that requires a restart... (I have to kill the kopi process; choosing "Save&Exit" only does the save part of the equation and hides the app...
  • Too early to say for sure, but it does look like it's still fairly memory-hungry...
If I didn't like the suite so much, I wouldn't have spent so long trying to find things to complain about!

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« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2004, 02:17:04 am »
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The bug I previously encountered where re-opening closed TODOs caused a crash has been fixed! Yay!. However, since I've got "fastload" on for KO/PI, I've now got no way of closing it down. Which is very irritating when I've changed a config setting that requires a restart... (I have to kill the kopi process; choosing "Save&Exit" only does the save part of the equation and hides the app...
Too early to say for sure, but it does look like it's still fairly memory-hungry...

Disabeling fastload should "unload" that specific program. So that might be a solution you can try..

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« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2004, 02:42:31 am »
So, KDE PIM/Pi going to be shrunk down in install size sometime soon, maybe?

Once the whole thing's more around the 4-5 MB or lower mark for the install size (it's up around 8 or so right now...), I think more people will be willing to use it, including me (once it's gotten to 2.0 stable - I need 100% stable stuff, I use the Z for school).

And of course the possibility of a Beam Receive option right in K[O/A]/Pi would be nice too...
Sorry. I just don't have the time...

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« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2004, 02:57:41 am »
Chaos: KDEPIM/PI team use one big package for all libs. If you don't need synchronize with mobile phones you can try to remove libmicrogammu and bluetooth libs. If don't use their version of OpieMail then remove also SSL, etpan, mailwrapper libs.
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« Reply #11 on: September 22, 2004, 03:00:17 am »
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No. That is not possible.

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« Reply #12 on: September 22, 2004, 03:02:31 am »
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Chaos: KDEPIM/PI team use one big package for all libs.

That is not true!

The packages are split to several packages.

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« Reply #13 on: September 22, 2004, 03:18:49 am »
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So, KDE PIM/Pi going to be shrunk down in install size sometime soon, maybe?

No. That is not possible.
Unfortunate... As I have my own custom ROM, giving 8 MB of space to PIM is a little challenging.  And having to install from IPKs would be annoying.

Oh well, I guess that can't be avoided with such a complex program...
Sorry. I just don't have the time...

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« Reply #14 on: September 22, 2004, 03:20:32 am »
oops - I rechecked that and must back my words.. sorry zautrix

I splitted Your programs into other packages:
kapi - KA/PI + libmicrokabc plugins (file, dir, binary)
kopi - KO/PI
kopi-applet - applet alone
libmicrokabc1 - only libmicrokabc.so
libmicrokcal1 - only libmicrokcal.so
libmicrokdelibs - libmicrokdepim, libmicrokde, libmicroqtcompat

and sometimes I forgot how those apps are linked together..
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