KDE-Pim/Pi 1.9.10 Release

[ev1l]

Installing 12 now, I have a couple of bugs to report but I want to check first. Damn you guys are fast.

feature request: make the dock applet totally configurable. (If you've ever used Firefox's "customize" sytem for the menu bars, something like that would be great)
(that way you could choose each item on the "timer" list, where to put each item and separators.

Sync to the Mozilla Suite (and the Firefox/Thunderbird/Sunbird components) would be very nice.

It would be very nice to make the menus consistent across all the PI apps (same icons/titles)

More menu items could use keyboard shortcuts. Displaying them in the menu bars would really help.

In Kapi, it would help to be able to choose the maximum size of contacts' pictures.

Edit: The birthday import function isn't ideal. It still creates ducplicates when events have had their properties (but not the summary) changed.

There's no way to import iCal is there? That would solve two sync problems at the same time (sync with Apple iCalendar and Mozilla Suite/Sunbird)
It would also be nice to give all the PI apps command switches to import/export their files to ease up sync.

[mikew]

Thanks ~Ulf, that worked.

Created another problem KA/Pi now crashes when I try to sync, happens as soon as I click the OK button. I assume it's because I have a lot of contacts to sync, there are 906 of them.

Any suggestions?

Mike

[zautrix]

Thanks ~Ulf, that worked.

Created another problem KA/Pi now crashes when I try to sync, happens as soon as I click the OK button. I assume it's because I have a lot of contacts to sync, there are 906 of them.

Any suggestions?

Mike

What are you syncing, what KA/Pi version are you using and what OK button are you clicking?
Please give more details, if you report bugs,

thanks,
z.

[rogerbowering]

Hi

I think KO/Pi KA/Pi are fabulous

One enhancement I would like to see, as my calendar is very large, is the option of synching with DTM for a sepcified date range in the past as well as the future, ie this year, this month, 'x' days in the past

Keep up the good work

[ulf1]

One enhancement I would like to see, as my calendar is very large, is the option of synching with DTM for a sepcified date range in the past as well as the future, ie this year, this month, 'x' days in the past

I do not think this makes a huge difference in performance.
The local file and remote file have to be loaded and parsed anyway, and the check is very fast for entries that have not been changed.

~Ulf

[rogerbowering]

Well I have imported quite a lot of calendar entries into KO/Pi and the synching takes around 10 minutes now as opposed to about 10-20 seconds.

I suppose an alternative would be something like the Psion used to have of archiving off a range of dates to a backup file

[holck]

As I tend to have a large number of emails on my server, being able to use OM/PI with IMAP is really nice, but I have a problem with non-English characters like our Danish æ, ø and å. For one thing, they are not displayed correctly in the email body. Also, in the message headers OM/PI doesn't parse text like

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ingeni=F8ren|net?=, so reading the "From" and "Subject" field often is kind of difficult.

The first problem might have to do with missing characters in the font I use. I also have problems with missing characters in Zbedic, but not in programs like Hancom Word.
/Jesper

[zautrix]

As I tend to have a large number of emails on my server, being able to use OM/PI with IMAP is really nice, but I have a problem with non-English characters like our Danish æ, ø and å. For one thing, they are not displayed correctly in the email body. Also, in the message headers OM/PI doesn't parse text like

Code: [Select]

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ingeni=F8ren|net?=, so reading the "From" and "Subject" field often is kind of difficult.

The first problem might have to do with missing characters in the font I use. I also have problems with missing characters in Zbedic, but not in programs like Hancom Word.
/Jesper

Both problems will be fixed in next version.

The squares (missing characters) are a bug, which I fixed.

The "?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ing..."

is caused by missing character conversion tables on the zaurus.

I will provide an ipk package with the tables together with the next version.

The whole character conversion tables are quite big, appr. 7.6 MB.
I have to find a way how to install this on SD card.

New version 1.9.13 should be available tonight ( tonight CET ).

z.

[edurio]

Hi!

New user here (C700 Cacko 1.12 hotfix .

May I post some wishes in this post, or maybe there is any other forum out there to do that (or email address)? I will also try to post in the KO/Pi forum at www.pi-sync.net .

IMHO, there two or three enhancements that will greatly improve the usability of KO/Pi for people who also wants to use the Zaurii as a main PIM solution (right now, I carry a PalmOS powered Tungsten T3 device and the Zaurii). Summarizing:

+Option to just show scheduled time and automatically resize windows depending on the numer of todos and appointments. If I have lots of todos for a day, but no appointments, I must manually drag and drop the separator to make room for todos (otherwise, they are stretched and are almost unreadable).

But, if you only show scheduled time (and, if there are no appointments for that day, agenda window just would be empty), there are lots o free space for todos, which, shall be "font fixed" (Displaying 20 todos a day is useless if you can't read the text).

Agendus and DateBk5 PIM software for PalmOS handle it very well. ¿Just 1 todo and one appointment for a day? It shows first the appointment (with start time and end time if selected, just start time and duration, icon etc...but it only shows that time slot anyway), then the separator, then the todo, and nothing else. The rest of the screen is empty. Of course, you can use icons, colors, differente font size for each entry...they are great features, but the most important thing is the resize option and just show scheduled time.

Something like this:

[img]http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/8762gs50X/183888.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /]
[img]http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/8762gs50X/183889.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /]


+Grid week view: a picture is worth a thousand words, ¿right?

[img]http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/8762gs50X/183885.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /]
[img]http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/8762gs50X/183886.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /]
[img]http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/8762gs50X/183887.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /]

Again, color and icons are awesome in those kind of views.

+Generally speaking, icons are a terrific tool to organize, and customizable font size and color, background color for each entry. Implementing this in a "list view", the same already implemented in KO/Pi, would also be great.

+Sometimes I feel that there is also lots of space wasted in scrollbars, windows frames and so on. I think that the most useful information without scrolling in a PIM app is the most important thing (as long as you can read it, of course). If you want to, I can also post a screenshot of KO/Pi in my C700 to elaborate.


Please, bear in mind that these are just constructive points. I don't want to start a flame war or whatever, but I'm terribly frustrated becouse such a great machines (Zaurii) with such a great SO and usability don't have a really improved PIM software for that platform. KO/Pi is on the way, and it's almost there.

I would do whatever betatesting is needed. I'm not a good coder (actually, I haven't programmed in a Linux environmnet since I finished the university period), but I'm willing to help as far as I can.

Best wishes,

Eduardo (Spain)

[ev1l]

I love how you only blurred one afternoon. Lover appointment, anyone  

[zautrix]

Version 1.9.13 is available:

********** VERSION 1.9.13 ************

Fixed nasty PwM/Pi file reading bug, when
the used hash algo of file is different then the global
hash algo.

Added KA/Pi support for opie mailit mailapplication.

Fixed some bugs in OM/Pi.
Now character conversion tables are available for the Zaurus
to make OM/Pi working properly.
To get the character conversion in OM/Pi working, please download
at the sourceforge project site the package
sr-character-conversion_SharpROM_arm.ipk.zip
(or oz-character-conversion_OZ-gcc3xx_arm.ipk.zip for OZ roms)
from the section "general files for KDE/Pim"
Instructions how to install this package are in a ReadMe in this file.


Fixed the orientation change problem in KA/Pi when switching
portrait/landscape mode.

French translation available for KA/Pi and OM/Pi.

Fixed some problems with categories in KO/Pi in DTM sync.

Added selection dialog for export to phone in KA/Pi.

If in KO/Pi is an attendee selected to add to a meeting and this
attendee is already in the list of attendees, this person is not added
again.

Some menu cleanup in KA/Pi.

[edurio]

I love how you only blurred one afternoon. Lover appointment, anyone  

 

They were not actual screenshots of my PDA he he he... I borrowed them from another website.

I would kill for those features  

[ev1l]

Yay for a new version. So, ehm, what about Mozilla zync? Is it in the works, or aren't you interested?
edit: do you want someone to build the SuSE rpms for you?

[mikew]

Upgraded KO/Pi to version 1.9.12 then 13, both would crash at the end of the DTM sync process, after you click the OK button to accept updates, reverted to version 1.9.10 which works OK.

Has anyone else got these versions to work with 900+ contacts, or have any idea what broke in the last 2 versions.

Mike

[ev1l]

I've reported all the bugs I found on the SF.net page. Here are the feature requests. Can/should I log them formally somewhere else?

Kopi

• Make pop-up date picker work with drag select, the same way it works in agenda view and when creating appointments.
• Possibility to choose which columns are displayed in the views that use them (call the config screen by long-tapping on a column header)
• Option to choose which buttons are displayed in the button-bar.
• Option to combine several buttons of the same type into a meta button (with all the views buttons, for example. one click brings a drop-down button-menu, second click activates selected view). See the 2.x winamp playlist window for a good example.
• implement category drop-downs for todo list and appointment list, much like kapi does it. makes it easier tpo find the task/appointment you want.