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diff --git a/korganizer/README b/korganizer/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..07453be9b --- /dev/null +++ b/korganizer/README @@ -0,0 +1,280 @@ + +-----------------------+ + | K O R G A N I Z E R | + +-----------------------+ + + version 3.3 pre + + http://korganizer.kde.org + +Next release: KDEPIM-3.3 (something like May 2004) + +QUICK NOTES ON WHAT'S NEW IN THE DIFFERENT VERSIONS: + +* Official 3.2 release (January 2004) + + - New Features: + - Support for multiple calendars and todo lists. Korganizer can now + transparently merge calendar data from different files or other calendar + data sources for example calendars on the web. They can conveniently + activated, deactivated, added and removed from the graphical user + interface. + - Kontact integration. KOrganizer now is fully integrated with Kontact, the + complete KDE personal information management application. Within Kontact + some additional features are available like conversion of mails to events + or todos by drag and drop. + - New storage model: The notion of an active calendar was replaced by a + persistant calendar. The user doesn't have to take care of loading or + saving the calendar. Changes are immediately saved to disk. If the + calendar is changed externally it is automatically loaded and updated in + the view. A locking mechansim handles concurrent access to the calendar. + - Undo and Redo. KOrganizer now supports unlimited undo and redo. + - Todo integration with agenda view. Todos are shown in the week and day + views. Todos can be converted to events by dragging from the todo list and + dropping on the agenda view. + - Attachements for events and todos. References to web pages, local files or + mails can be attached to events and todos. The attached data can easily be + accessed by a single click from the event and todo views as well as the + summary view or the editors. + - Quick todo entry. A special input field allows to quickly create a todo + without needing to open an editor. This is especially handy for creating + multiple todos in a row. + - Quick event entry. There are several new ways to create events from the + agenda view: Per type-ahead events can be created by selecting a time + range and then simply starting to type. An editor will be opened and the + type text will be go into the summary input line. Optionally the event + editor can be opened when the time selection is finished and in addition + to the usual menu and toolbar entries there are key bindings and a context + menu to start the editor dialog. + - Plugin for Jewish calendar dates. When enabled this plugin shows the + Jewish calendar dates for each day in the calendar view. + - Improved print support. The print dialogs were rewritten. Printing now + supports colors and overlapping events. + + - User interface polishing. The visual appearance of KOrganizer was improved + by a rewrite of the agenda view rendering and other enhancements like the + text fade-out when there isn't enough space to display the full text or the + graphical display of the completion state of todos. Many usability + improvements were incoreporated, like support for moving multi-day events in + the agenda view by dragging with the mouse, more complete and consistent key + bindings and context menus, better menu structure and more concise texts. + Some of these improvements were stimulated by external usability studies. + + - Bug fixes. Countless bug fixes went into this version, one of them being a + fix for the session management which closes the, according to Bugzilla, most + hated bug of KOrganizer 3.1. + + - Better performance. The speed of calendar loading and saving was + significantly improved and memory consumption of calendars was decreased. + + - Architecture and framework: + - KOrganizer makes use of the KDE resource framework KResources which + provides uniform management of calendar, addressbook and similar + resources including generic ways to handle locking and change + notification. This also provides a plugin interface for adding resources + which makes it possible to easily extend Korganizer for example to access + groupware servers or other ways to store calendar data. + - KOrganizer configuration is now based on KConfig XT. That means that + there is an abstract XML based description of the configuration which is + used for generating the needed code to access the configuration data and + serves as base for external configuration tools. + - Simplification of alarm daemon. KOrganizer doesn't use kalarmd anymore, + it only needs the korgac daemon which also rpovides the system tray icon + for being able to notify about alarms. Run control of the alarm daemon + also was simplified, it's now all done by the context menu of the system + tray icon and doesn't need the control center anymore. + - The configuration dialog is now based on kcontrol modules. This is a + prerequisite for integrating the configuration within Kontact. + - KMail now directly supports transfer of invitations and other calendar + attachments to KOrganizer. This supercedes the korganizerIn script + solution. + - Accessing the calendar from the command line is now exclusively handled + by a native command line application, konsolekalendar. + + +* Official 3.1 release (January 2003) + + - General: + - User-definable templates for events and todos. + - Alarms for todos. + - Automatic HTML export on save of calendar file. + - Time table print view. + - New "location" attribute for events. + - Experimental "Get Hot New Stuff" button for downloading and uploading + calendar files of common interest. + + - Views: + - New "Next 3 days" view. + - Selection of time span for a new event in day and week views. + - Direct manipulation of priority, completion status and categories of todos + by context menus. + - Deletion of individual instances of recurring events. + - Rewritten month view. + - Coloring of events in month view based on categories. + - Coloring of due and overdue todos. + - Improved "What's Next" view. + - Configurable cell height in week and day views + + - Group scheduling: + - iMIP group scheduling functions for todos. + - Publishing of Free/Busy information by iMIP conformant email. + - Improved automatisation of group scheduling. + + - Interoperability and integration + - Support for "webcal" URLs in Konqueror. + - Support for iCalendar based drag&drop. + - KOrganizer now shares the dialogs for categories with KAddressBook. + - Improved iCalendar conformance. + - Improved right-to-left languages support. + - Bug fixes for non-latin1 encodings. + + - Plugins: + - New plugin for importing birthdays from The KDE address book. + - New plugin for accessing calendar data on an Exchange server. + +* Official 3.0.3 release (August 2002) + + - Fixed problem caused by Qt 3.0.5 that made context menus in todo and list + view inaccessible. + +* Official 3.0.2 release (June 2002) + + - Bug fixes + - Respect secrecy setting in HTML export also in non-english languages. + - Insert page breaks in todo printouts when necessary. + +* Official 3.0.1 release (May 2002) + + - Lots of bug fixes including fixes to two major bugs: + - Fixed time shift problem which occurred sometimes when saving a calendar. + - Fixed memory leaks in loading and saving the calendar + +* Official 3.0 release (March 2002) + + - Bug fixes + +* Beta Release 3.0beta2 (Februrary 2002) + + - More group scheduling fixes + - Other bug fixes + +* Beta Release 3.0beta1 (December 2001) + + - Group scheduling fixes + +* Alpha Release 3.0alpha1 (October 2001) + + - Group scheduling + - Plugin interface + - Marcus Bain line + - Full port to Qt3/KDE3 + - Major code cleanup + +* Official 2.2 release (August 2001) + + - Bug fixes + +* Beta Release 2.2beta1 (June 2001) + + - Drag&Drop of attendees from kaddressbook to korganizer + +* Alpha Release 2.2alpha2 (May 2001) + + - Active remote calendar + - Sending events via KMail + - Tip of the Day + - "Percent completed" setting for todos + - Bug fixes + +* Alpha 1 release of version 2.2 (April 2001) + + This release is mainly to try out some new technologies and get some + feedback after major reorganisation of the code. + + What's new: + - Switch to iCalendar as default file format + - "What's next" view + - Journal feature + - Project view + - HTML export of month view + +* Official 2.1 release (February 2001) + + - Highlighting of working hours + - Todo and Month View can now use the full window + - ScrollBars of month view cells can now be turned off + - Better support for non-ascii charsets + +* Official 2.0 release (October 2000) + + - No more bugs to fix (sigh, I'm dreaming) + +* Beta-Release 1.94 (September 2000) + + - Even more bug fixes + +* Beta-Release 1.93 (August 2000) + + - More bug fixes + +* Beta-Release 1.92 (July 2000) + + - A couple of bug fixes + +* Beta-Release 1.91 (June 2000) + + - Full integration in KDE 2 framework + - Improved Todo-View (hierarchical todos, drag and drop, ...) + - Web Page Export + - Improved Agenda View (colored events, parallel events, ...) + - Many, many other improvements and bug fixes + +* Official 1.0 release (February 1999) + +INTRODUCTION: + +KOrganizer aims to be a complete program for organizing your +appointments, contacts, projects, etc. It is in the same spirit as +similar programs like the now ubiquitous Microsoft Outlook, Starfish +Internet Sidekick, Time & Chaos, etc. (all for the Microsoft Windows +platform, of course.) Best of all, It reads and writes the vCalendar +file format NATIVELY (please see http://www.imc.org/pdi for more +information), which is now an industry-wide personal data interchange +format. Because of this, you should be able to move from other modern +PIMs to KOrganizer with relative ease. Current users of the popular +program ical should definitely take a look at KOrganizer and compare +features. + +KOrganizer also offers full synchronization with your Palm Pilot, if you +have kpilot installed. + +To install KOrganizer, please read the file INSTALL. The process is +analogous to other KDE applications. + +Documentation is available online from the Help->Contents menu option. +While it is not complete and has not been updated in several months, +it is at least partially helpful. Anyone wishing to help on completing +or enhancing the documentation should contact me directly at the email +address given at the end of this document. + +BUGS: + +Bugs can be reported to the KDE bug tracking system (http://bugs.kde.org). +There you can also get information about the status of older bugs. +KOrganizer, as most other KDE 2 programs, offers a menu item "Report Bug" +in the Help menu for convenient reporting of bugs or feature requests. + +NEWS and TODO: + +Have a look at the KOrganizer homepage (http://korganizer.kde.org). +There you find news and a todo list for future KOrganizer development (of +course generated with KOrganizer itself). + +CONTACT INFORMATION: + +We want your suggestions and comments! + +Please mail them to the maintainer of KOrganizer: + +Cornelius Schumacher (schumacher@kde.org) + +I always welcome contributions and new members for the team. |