Some thoughts about "the competition": Nah...

I like KDE and I enjoy developing for it. Thank goodness we have choices.



Some recent PIM accomplishments:

• I wrote (not really, I took the To-do plugin and hacked on it for a couple of hours) a Journal plugin for Kontact. You'll find it in the development code.
• Finally committed all my Incidence sorting methods into libkcal. Yeah! That code has been sitting in my local sandbox for months.

Someone (I forgot who, sorry) asked on the kdepim mailing list for the To-do printout to optionally write the percentage completed. So I implemented that.

While working on that new feature we discovered that there were two "ghosted"
options on the To-do print dialog that were never implemented, namely the option
to print only unfinished To-dos and the other to print To-dos within a range of due dates.
So I implemented those as well.

From the One-Thing-Leads-To-Another Department:

You may recall from a previous blog that I am changing libkcal to provide a better Incidence sorting interface. While I am working this I decided to check for consistency across the Event, Todo, and Journal methods in libkcal.

I got my hands into the KDEPIM API the past few days... libkcal to be specific.
I wanted a better interface for sorting Events which KonsoleKalendar needed. For consistency, I added similar code for sorting Todos and Journals. The patch will be going off to the kdepim mailing list for review in a few minutes (after I test one more time). This was fun for a change with no human interface to worry about.

Howdy, this is my first KDE developers blog entry!


I got into KDE development because I had a feature I asked to be implemented
in KonsoleKalendar -- the itch. Cornelius asked me if I wanted to work on that
feature... so I did -- the scratch. So now I'm the KonsoleKalendar co-maintainer
along with Tuukka Pasanen. KonsoleKalendar is a CLI program so it doesn't seem
to get much attention and it has suffered from lack of attention recently but it
is a handy utility. I'm happy to say that I've helped to implement new features
like inserting and deleting and modifying events, and also adding new export formats. And, of course, I've fixed a bunch of bugs too. Check it out