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diff --git a/kpilot/ChangeLog b/kpilot/ChangeLog new file mode 100644 index 000000000..01da1b8d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/kpilot/ChangeLog @@ -0,0 +1,4220 @@ +** KPILOT CHANGELOG ** +====================== + +TODO: Figure out why archived records are bad. + [23:07] <till> Now i'm hunting why new entries on the palm are dropped and + deletes from the palm as well. + [23:44] <till> [ade]: Hm, I delete a task on the palm, sync, and the + record->isDeleted() is false, on sync, but it is modified and + updated on the pc, although that does not change anything. + +TODO: store map of pilot-id <-> uid elsewhere (not in the .vcf file) +TODO: don't make ActionQueue auto-delete the actions in it. +TODO: provide template-based, interpreted databases much like the + AppInfo classes now have. +TODO: give the knotes conduit a decent test mode. +TODO: only re-write a local database if it is changed. + +2007-12-30 Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper +* Fixing bug reported by Pablo Yepes on kdepim-users mailing list. We did + severe goofiness with middle names... The Palm can't handle them, so we + blindly tacked firstname + " " + lastname and stuck it into the Palm's + firstname field. The problem is that whenever a copy from palm->pc is + done, the kludged first name is transferred to kabc ("firstname middle"). + And, it's compounded by every change in either direction. It's an ugly + hack and I've removed it. The only way to work around it would be to add + an additional check for !firstname.endsWith(abEntry.additionalName()), + but that's even sillier. Stop the insanity! + +2007-12-17 Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper +* Woot! Fixing major breakage for funky usb devices. pulled back some + removed code from KDE 3.5.6's kpilot for usb workaround code and fit it + into the new threaded model. This fixes syncing for me on my Palm Treo + 700p. +* Reformatting and cleaning up kpilotdevicelink.cc. +* New Private.h to hold the bits of kpilotdevicelink.cc that should not be + exposed via kpilotdevicelink.h. Also, DeviceCommThread extends QObject + and QThread, so we need to have automoc run on it. +* Switching from using QCustomEvent to using QEvent for device tickle + thread to match what is done in kpilotdevicelink. + +2007-04-15 Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper +* merging all development and bug fixes from kdepim-3.5.5+ branch into + stable branches/KDE/3.5 in preparation for KDE 3.5.7 +* cmake cleanups +* namespacing and cleanups in sysinfoconduit +* lots of debugging cleanups. remove #ifdef DEBUG from much of the code. +* cleanups in memofile conduit. now try to use new (OS5) database + (MemosDB-PMem) if it's found, otherwise fall back to the legacy one + (MemoDB) +* as a first step to combatting the "kpilot ate my future" e-mails (read: + data loss), we now use a CUDCounter (Create/Update/Delete). step 1 is to + track these and report on them to the user in their sync log. step 2 is + to catch ill behavior and prompt the user as to whether or not to allow + kpilot to make the large amount of changes. step 3 is to allow the user + to configure the count or percentage of changes that kpilot can make + without his/her confirmation. step 1 is done. we'll approach steps 2 and + 3 post kde 3.5.7. +* new strings related to the above +* bug fixing in popconduit... making sure we always have a sent date +* Bertjan has the start of knotes cleanup going on +* bug fixing in vcalconduit... long-time bug that existed in libkcal that + caused every calendar resource save to mark every calendar event as + modified. now kpilot won't have to sync every record every time. +* bug fixing kabc resource problems in abbrowser conduit. although it's + not documented in kabc, it looks like we should be removing a local + resource from the address book before we delete it. +* bringing mal conduit back alive again. none of our small band of merry + men use it, though, so it may or may not actually do what it's supposed + to. +* fixing bug where we were saving conduit databases to DBBackup instead of + conduits/ directory. +* changing KPilotDeviceLink to use a separate thread, dedicated to doing + device communication. this is much better design as a start, but fixes + the problems kpilot was having (and widely talked about) where kpilot + would hang and crash if our user was using "usb:" or "net:any" devices + because of how these new "device"s operated (allowed immediate opening, + even though there is no physical device connected, and then hung + indefinitely until the real device connected). +* bringing in design documents (jpegs) for memofile conduit from 2004-12-12 + (they're not installed, but are valuable for documentation and insight) +* icon naming error bug fix 122582 + + +2006-10-24 Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper +* Getting rid of FastSync. The only difference between it and HotSync was + that HotSync did a Backup and FastSync did not. Having a third + permutation because of not having a way to set it in the Backup settings + seems wrong. Also, if one of them is to go, I think that HotSync is much + more recognizable and widely used than FastSync. +* Allowing finer-grained control around when database backups are done. + This is so that users can choose when they want a backup to be done. + The problem I need to solve for myself is that since I'm now syncing + between 2 PCs, I need a full sync to be done whenever I switch. But I + do not EVER want an automatic backup to be done. Currently, this is not + possible. Fixing it. =:) This will also allow for schedule backups to + be done, which is also of interest to me. + +2006-01-30 Adriaan de Groot +* Updated pilot-link to today's CVS, with one change - use of pl_socklen_t + in inet.c changed back to socklen_t. +* Added --loop to kpilotTest to repeatedly run the same action. Only + works for --list right now. + +2006-01-23 Adriaan de Groot +* Gosh, where to begin. KPilot moved SVN repositories, changed build + systems, had the guts of the device link class refactored, bumped the + plugin API version again, and tons more. The commit logs are probably + the most useful source of information about what's changed. + +2005-08-18 Adriaan de Groot +* Found out that the PilotAppCategory constructor that takes + a PilotRecord * was passing subsequent parameters in the wrong + order, which caused Jason's problem below. +* Renamed soem icons and fixed up the icon loading code so that + the "sidebar" icons in KPilot can now be themed as well. + +2005-08-18 Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper +* Started fixing bug #103581. Got side-tracked by my discovery that when + we change ToDos on the palm, we sync them to the PC and then promptly + delete them from the Palm--not very nice of us. I'll try to get the rest + working tomorrow, but the end result will be that if our user changes a + ToDo category and there is only one category in korganizer for that ToDo, + we will change the category for the KCal event. If there is already more + than one category that korganizer knows about, then we'll continue to + append the Palm's category to the one in korganizer. + +2005-08-17 Adriaan de Groot +* Promote the new Pilot*Info (template) classes which simplify loading + AppInfo structures from a database. Deprecate some AddressEntry + constructors to do so, and add one that takes a PilotAddressInfo + instead. In kpilot/, replace a bunch of error-prone buffer-handling + calls by the use of these template classes. +* Use PilotAddressInfo also in the abbrowser conduit. This removes a + bunch of tricky encoding handling from the conduit and puts it in + the base Info class, where it belongs. + +2005-08-16 Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper +* Fixed annoyance in vcalconduit (korganizer calendar/todo conduit) that + caused it to not clean up duplicates/things that should be deleted from + the Palm on a copy PC to Handheld sync. +* Fixed some majorly ugly bugs in the addressbook conduit that caused + duplicate addressbook records to be generated and not deleted once + created. + +2005-08-15 Adriaan de Groot +* Added lots of null-pointer checks so that it may become possible to + run conduits without a device link soon. This would be good for testing. +* Noticed that the factory code needs refactoring into templates. + Did so, and ported the abbrowser factory to it. Basically, this + removes a lot of cut-and-paste from the whole thing. Same for the + timeconduit. + +2005-06-05 Adriaan de Groot +* I learned to make Chinese dumplings yesterday. That's a much better use + of a saturday afternoon than bug hunting, don't you think? +* Put lots of effort into the dox for PilotDateEntry, normalized a lot + of things, gave things slightly more sensible names. This is work towards + implementing the DatabaseInterpreter for appointments, so you can treat + the data on the Pilot as a sequence of (libkcal) Events instead of as + binary blobs. +* Patch from Dylan G applied that replaces 15s and 16s in the code with a + defined constant (there already was one, just not used consistently). + Did some more rationalizing, finally removed the CATEGORY_COUNT define + which was just a duplicate. + +2005-05-27 Adriaan de Groot +* Start of the PIM meeting! Way! +* Committed some critical data-loss fixes yesterday. Too late for the KDE 3.4.1 release. + Argh. I think it would have been better not to touch BRANCH at all and leave it + at the same buggy state as in KDE 3.4.0 +* Fairly large-scale deprecation of functions in lib/, finally factored out the + shared attributes/category/id stuff from records and AppCategory objects. + +2005-05-26 Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper +* Fixing nasty little bug (#106324) causing data loss in memofile conduit +* isFirstSync() is true for both copyHHtoPC and copyPCtoHH. memofile + conduit only wants to do copyHHtoPC if we're either told to, or we don't + have any local memos in the filesystem + +2005-05-22 Adriaan de Groot +* Gratuitously update the version number, call this one "kind" (Dutch for + "child", or otherwise short for "kind of liable to eat your data"). + This sort-of makes me wish we'd just left BRANCH totally unchanged + since the last release. KDE 3.4.1 tomorrow. + +2005-05-20 Adriaan de Groot +* Split PISOCK_LIB into PISOCK_LIB and PISOCK_LDFLAGS. This makes it possible + to slip the include and library dir for pilot-link right in front, which in + turn makes it possible to build against development pilot-link versions even + if there are installed copies in standard locations as well. +* Extended the AppInfo template class with a pack function as well, so that + reading and writing AppInfo blocks can be delegated there. +* Ported the ToDo conduit to use the PilotToDoInfo template instantiation. + +2005-05-16 Adriaan de Groot +* Added yet another constructor to the local databases, this time hopefully + one that doesn't have a horribly convoluted semantics -- it just opens + a file (or not). +* Added more tests for lib. These will always fail unless you have a copy + of Aesop's fables in /tmp . + +2005-05-13 Adriaan de Groot +* Friday the 13th! I merged HEAD to BRANCH and am now working in + BRANCH (branches/KDE/3.4/kdepim/kpilot) to do bugfixes. New features + and strings go in HEAD, and we'll forward-port bugfixes at some + point. The cutover is revision 413061. + +2005-05-11 Adriaan de Groot +* Wasted much time trying to get generic FreeBSD USB support for non- + Visors working in pilot-link-0.12 before I found out that ColdSync + doesn't support that either. +* Removed non-working calendar conduits (calendarbaseconduit/ and + calendarconduits/) from the conduits dir; restore them w/ SVN + commits near 412528. These were recordconduit-based conduits + by Reinhold, but I broke the RecordConduit in the meantime. + +2005-05-07 Adriaan de Groot +* After tweaking pilot-link 0.12-pre3 so that KPilot will with it (has to do + with API consistency) the AppInfo template class works again, and i've + extended it a little to make setting and getting category names nicer. +* Applied the new template to the memofile conduit. + +2005-04-22 Adriaan de Groot +* Fixed (I hope) bug in notepad conduit related to having zero records in the + database. +* Added some more dox. + +2005-04-20 Adriaan de Groot +* Finally added a general test() function to sync actions to mirror the + exec() call. By default, this calls exec() and logs a warning. Removed it + again because it won't work -- SyncAction doesn't _have_ a SyncMode set. +* Started doing a little bit of test code in the KNotes conduit. + +2005-04-18 Adriaan de Groot +* Being on vacation doesn't mean I'm not on the job. Doxied a lot, did some cleanup. +* Renamed PilotLocalDatabase::writeID() and changed its signature, since it + was kind of stupid. Doxied it, too. + +2005-04-12 Adriaan de Groot +* For a lark, and for David, re-added some KDE 3.2 compatibility code. +* Template madness! An easy way to create the right appinfo's from any database. + +2005-04-11 Adriaan de Groot +* Bumped KPilot version. +* Added a test program for some parts of the library. Woo! A first! + Finally something resembling actual software engineering in KPilot. +* Cleaned up headers that weren't including all required (system) headers. +* Moved all the conduits to the new SyncMode. + +2005-04-10 Adriaan de Groot +* Some useful patches from Philip T. to the vcal conduit committed. +* Made the sync mode a full-fledged class and ported lib/ and kpilot/ + to use it. Disabled all the conduits for the time being. Bumped the + conduit API because of this. This might cause some serious breakage + for the time being. + +2005-04-09 Adriaan de Groot +* Geez, can we switch to Subversion yet? +* Committed the weird-ass record conduit template changes. This makes the + RecordConduit a fully templated "container". You plug in 5 other classes + to get a working implementation. This is similar to what the record + conduit already. The main difference is that it is easier to re-use + the things you plug into the recordconduit template. I have a KNotes + partial implementation that wraps KCal::Calendar, so that is immediately + reuseable for the other 4-button ones. +* Ripped out test mode from KPilotTest and elsewhere, since it wasn't working + at all. I think the "mode" setting for conduits needs a lot more structure. + Just having an enum doesn't cut it (what about doing a test-mode local + PC to HH sync? Such a sync could be used to produce .pdb files from Kontact + data, which is just what the doctor ordered sometimes). + +2005-03-22 Adriaan de Groot +* Long drought in doing any KPilot work or updating the ChangeLog. +* Meddled in lib/ some to add modifiedIDList() and sanitize some types. +* Prepared to make fFirstSync private, though it has getters and setters + so that doesn't really do much for OO'ness. +* Wrote a template class for doing syncs generically, to replace the + RecordConduit. This one I understand, at least. It's not done yet though, + by a long shot, though I have classes to plug in to it for KNotes. + + + +2005-01-30 Adriaan de Groot +* Fixed one nasty random crash thanks to vanRijn, probably fixed + the KNotes HHtoPC problem, tagged 4.4.7, released it. This + is the last version to support KDE 3.2 at all, since KDE PIM + moved to KDE 3.3 ages ago and KDE 3.4 is at the door. + +2005-01-12 Adriaan de Groot +* Made KNotes conduit work when KNotes is embedded in kontact, too. +* One branch of the check-username code wasn't setting the username properly. +* More debugging niftiness, major NO_CAST cleanup. +* Fixed sysinfo conduit, which didn't read its config file. + + +2005-01-11 Adriaan de Groot +* Added a workaround for buggy Zire USB behavior. It works most of the time. +* Fixed memory leak when reading AppInfo. +* Updated website with some more OS-specific information. As always, I am + in dire need of workable explanations for OS (usually Linux-distro) + specific quirks. +* Worked on debugging output a little, normalized more output. +* Verified that copy PC to HH works on Addressbook, ToDo, Calendar. + + +2005-01-05 Adriaan de Groot +* Pilot-link 0.12, when it comes out, is source incompatible with 0.11, + but KPilot is already ported to it. +* Fixed up silly conflict resolution question in the datebook, but + really it needs the field-by-field resolution that the addressbook has. +* In KPilotDeviceLink, move around check for unconfigured device to + notice earlier, before doing any work. Minor coding style fixes. +* Revamped debugging (again) so it's now much more 7 * 191; the call trace + is pretty readable now. + +2004-12-27 Adriaan de Groot +* Quitting and having the daemon go with you works now. + +2004-12-07 Adriaan de Groot +* Tried to make conduit descriptions more consistent. Remember: "handheld", + not "Pilot". Removed ugly const_cast. Added depth indication to the + call trace -- this is a pretty big change, it makes the output from + kpilot with --debug 1 more tree-ish, so it's easier to see what is being + called from where. + +2004-12-06 Adriaan de Groot +* Imported memofile from vanRijn. + +2004-11-30 Adriaan de Groot +* Having a second child .. puts a dent in development time. +* Make the daemon's next-sync match the one in KPilot, added tooltips + and whatsthis. Make the daemon tell KPilot what the next sync is, + so that changes from the tray menu are visible. This removes some strings. + +2004-11-29 Adriaan de Groot +* Waiting for second child .. puts a dent in development time too. +* Ported KPilot to pilot-link 0.12 (unreleased) which adds support + for newer devices and saves memory in the process. +* Data-loss on restore bug fixed by Will Stephenson. + +2004-11-23 Adriaan de Groot +* Squashed several silly bugs in wizard and startup code. + +2004-11-17 Adriaan de Groot +* Hiatus in KPilot due to working upstream on pilot-link. +* Patches from Olivier, merci. + +2004-10-11 Adriaan de Groot +* Made an actual CVS tag for KPilot, kpilot_4_4_6. Uploaded new 4.4.6 + tarballs. Updated the site. Posted more developer's notes. +* Added initial encoding-selection boxes to the doc conduit, to indicate + that the input text files are not UTF-8 but something else. +* Started revamping PilotLocalDatabase so we can get rid of the must- + sync-to-delete-new-(memo|address|whatever) in the internal viewers. +* All the bugs in the database really need a "can you check this again"? + added. Till Adam has been messing with recent code and is reporting + new crashes and bugs. + + +2004-10-07 Adriaan de Groot +* Started adding encoding support to PalmDOC conduit dialogs. Not + sure how to proceed there. +* Closed some more bugs, generally confused about some of the bugs + remaining in the database -- I need cooperation from the folks + reporting the bugs. +* Went on a str*cpy() hunt to avoid bad copies; converted most to + strlcpy(). Not the ones in the docconduit, though, since there, + the strncpy()s go to a data structure that doesn't necessarily + expect NUL termination (note to self: need to check that _extracting_ + data from the structure doesn't rely on NUL). + +2004-10-05 Adriaan de Groot +* I wonder if the codec() stuff shouldn't move from the PilotAppCategory + to the device link -- after all, it's the _device_ that knows what + the encoding is (who knows, maybe future versions of Pilots will be + able to tell th desktop this). +* Added a localBackup action, so we can make ~ backup files of all the + database files before doing a sync, just in case. +* Merged lots of bugs. +* Found out that KPilot uses title instead of prefix for the honorific + titles in the addressbook - this means KPilot and KAddressbook got + out of sync. Fixed. +* New questionYesNoCancel() didn't return correct button codes. +* Checked all the codec stuff, added some in relevant places but can't + spot any addressbook fields that are not synced. + +2004-10-04 Adriaan de Groot +* Bail if the Pilot disconnects, but only between conduits. Conduits + themselves should still check for disconnect. +* Bug maintainence turned up a useful patch for category support + in the calendar. + +2004-10-01 Adriaan de Groot +* Merged nice patch from Adrian S for HotPlug. +* Moved tickle stuff into a separate thread, so that it doesn't + require a Qt event loop to keep the Pilot awake. +* Added tickles in the right (?) places in the abbrowser - around + the loading part. +* Discovered that UserCheck used KMessageBox::question*() instead of + a version with timeouts. Fixed that by adding a qYNCancel() to + InteractiveSync, and updated both qYN*() methods there to use + KDE 3.3 KMessageBox support. +* Merged InteractiveAction with SyncAction, cleaning up the inheritance + tree and making it possible to conduits to use the question* methods. + +2004-09-26 Adriaan de Groot +* Put up new tarballs on kpilot.org. +* Patched up the KNotes conduit a little - notes listed as modified + but unknown to the Pilot are now added as new. +* Bumped version to 4.4.5. Polished the splash a little. +* Fixed 71122, finally. There wasn't any code at all in the conduit + for deleting memos. + + +2004-09-22 Adriaan de Groot +* Added some cheap RTTI to PilotDatabase, so you can call + dbType() to find out if it's really a local or a serial DB. +* Stared at the doc conduit for a long time. Did whitespace first. + +2004-09-18 Adriaan de Groot & Reinhold Kainhofer +* Deprecated a bunch of poorly-named functions in lib/, and + moved everything to the new names. Finally, no more getCat(), + but just category(). +* Detect special case of bad resource headers in file installer. +* Rearranged sync enum just a little. Moved eTest out of the way, + since it's not really a valid value to pass to the demon and made + 0 the value to indicate "default, whatever is stored in the + config file". +* Fixed up sync-type not honored, clarified next-sync menu (I + think so, didn't ask -usability about it though). + + +2004-08-16 Adriaan de Groot +* Was away at a summer school for two weeks. Got no KPilot stuff + done except an off-by-one bug in the memo stuff. +* Split the CopyHHtoPC code out in the knotes conduit, + ready for QThreading (maybe). + +2004-07-27 Adriaan de Groot +* MAL conduit proxy password not loaded properly. Reported by + Olivier D. +* Clean out ancient cruft in fileInstaller.{h,cc}. Run file installer + twice, to allow conduits to create files to install. Determine + list of files at ::exec() time, not at object creation time. +* Added some docs to the conduit configure.in.in. +* Give PERL conduit more information to work with. + +2004-07-19 Adriaan de Groot +* In kontact, if the daemon gets started it shouldn't complain loudly + about messed-up configurations. + +2004-07-14 Adriaan de Groot +* Joyeux quatorze juillet! Spent most of the past week totally ignoring + KPilot, working on personal websites, KDE-FreeBSD, and porting + k3b to FreeBSD (breaking it on Linux only briefly). + +2004-06-29 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Fix the bug that todos that were marked finished on the handheld + lost that state when synced to the PC. +* A few layout adjustments for the perl/python conduits (QTextEdit + instead of QLineEdit) + + +2004-06-29 Joern Ahrens +* Corrected the behavior of the configuration dialog, when the + screensaver option is changed. +* Moved the tickle code from InteractiveAction to SyncAction. + Now it can be used in ConduitAction subclasses as well. +* Ahh, got Adriaans m100, now I'm able to test without destroying + my data on the palm. Thanks Adriaan ! + +2004-06-27 Joern Ahrens +* Filled the notepad conduit with life. The notepads are saved as png + files in a configurable directory. + +2004-06-21 Adriaan de Groot +* Disable editor buttons when 'internal editors' is disabled (Carlos) + and fix up the tooltips when they are disabled. Also update some + copyright lines. Work on the docs. + +2004-06-16 Adriaan de Groot +* Disposed of foolish file installer bug. Updated tarballs on website + before fixing it, so now we're stuck :) Looked at 71122 again, + testing with my m500. +* Corrected finaly layout problems in some conduit config pages. + +2004-06-10 Adriaan de Groot +* Much delay in getting back to work on KPilot, even after a new mobo + arrived for my primary devel system. Useful patches were received + in the meantime, and commited by Joern. Olivier D. has started + improving the MAL conduit, wrt. proxy and password support. + +2004-06-02 Joern Ahrens +* Improved the wizards whatsthis text, thanks to David Bishop + +2004-05-30 Adriaan de Groot +* Handle first-time startups more gracefully by just running configure or + the config wizard. Better reporting of non-running daemon. Fix some + copyright headers. Add icons to next-sync menu in daemon. + +2004-05-28 Adriaan de Groot +* Make the tarballs available on the site; still no resolution for + memo bug, or timezone bug. Change strings in the applications to + point ot the new kpilot.org. + +2004-05-20 Adriaan de Groot +* Tested new tarballs for 4.4.3, and they seem ok. Put their md5s up on the + website. Note that the memos-not-deleted-on-palm bug still exists, as + do 60 others by last count. + +2004-05-16 Adriaan de Groot +* Put up the new KPilot.org website. +* Updated docs about net: syncing, thanks to Miles Sabin. +* Patch from Joern probably closes 4 bugs at once. + +2004-05-11 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Deprecated the JPilotProxy and expenses conduits, moved to nonbeta. + +2004-05-07 Adriaan de Groot +* PilotDatabase was a QObject. I wonder why, it didn't have signals or slots. +* PilotDatabase creation and destruction is now tracked (counted, at least, + so you can see if there's a leak there). + +2004-04-30 Adriaan de Groot +* Vrolijke koninginnedag! +* Finally updated the site some. +* Removed deprecated files, started using KDevelop, fixed random stuff. + +2004-04-28 Adriaan de Groot +* [kpilotConfigDialog] Added UI for screenlockSecure option. Docs, too. +* [kpilot] Changed hotSync button to one with a little dropdown + menu, thanks to Joern. [kpilotConfig] String fix for outdated config. + [probeDialog] Fixed up comments. [hotSync] Normalized debugging output. + [pilotDaemon] Fixed backwards logic. + +2004-04-26 Adriaan de Groot +* [kpilot.kcfg] Added [a68k] as default skip in the database list. +* [pilotDaemon] Use standard names for sync actions. Queue sorry + when sync type is bad. +* [hotSync] Change signature of backup action, lose the confusing + int mode parameter. +* [syncStack] Took out the mode stuff, replaced with SyncAction::SyncMode. + This simplified a lot of things, actually. Removed extra changed-PC check + in ConduitProxy, on the assumption this is already checked elsewhere. + +2004-04-21 Adriaan de Groot +* [hotSync] Made skip-database work properly, with wildcard support + and proper checking again, so you can now backup your Pilot and + specify that FATFS and *a68k can be skipped. Even did docs for it. +* [syncAction] Added function to return standard names for the + (enum) sync actions. + +2004-04-19 Adriaan de Groot +* Cleaned up header comments, copyrights, body comments, indentation, + brace style, and unused code in all kinds of files. Normalized use of + magic constant 0xffff in PilotRecord::APP_BUFFER_SIZE. Removed + some * in char *buffer[] where char buffer[] was meant, reducing KPilot's + stack memory usage there by a factor of 4 or more. +* Patch from Joern Ahrens to close another Bugzilla bug. + +2004-04-18 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Finish the autodetection of the handheld for the wizard. You *CAN* pi_bind + to multiple devices, so I just create a bunch of device links and wait for + connected signals... This also means we can get rid of page one of the wizard. + There is one problem left: If /dev/pilot or so is a symlink to a real device, + a connection on /dev/pilot and the actual device will be detected, and kpilot + will lock up. I guess I'll have to keep a (static) QStringList of real devices + we are bound to in KPilotDeviceLink and disallow binding to the same real + device again. + +2004-04-18 Adriaan de Groot +* Default debug_level to 0, so it doesn't print the call trace, but just the + (sometimes) useful debug output; use --debug 1 to print the call trace. +* [pilotDaemon] Add more useful warning output when conversation with screen- + saver fails. Add human-friendly way to request a specific sync type. + Factor out a whole lot in the startHotSync() to clear up the actual logic. +* Massive damage inflicted to factor out the one set of sync-enums and + use them everywhere, while cleaning up the setup-sync logic too. + Remove leading 'e' from enum type names (not the elements). + +2004-04-16 Adriaan de Groot +* Fixed double dialog when cancelling a change in the selection in the config + dialog. Took patch from Joern to fix resize problem in abbrowser resolution + dialog. Minor constructor mod in pilotMemo.h, and a much more nasty problem + in pilotMemo.cc, which seems to use a wrong memo length. Added some + docs. Removed a warning in addressWidget.cc. +* [conduitConfigWizard] Can't assign copyright except in writing, and even then + in the EU you can't renounce your copyright. Added a "None" sync setting, + for the use-case described on 4-11. + +2004-04-11 Adriaan de Groot +* Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3. Let's look at a use case: someone who doesn't want + to sync his or her palm with KDE apps, but does want a convenient application + to install files and keep a backup of their palm. How can they use KPilot? + Well, uncheck all the conduits except install files, set the daemon to auto-start, + and do nothing more than drop the pilot inthe cradle occasionally and hit the + HotSync button. Use kpilot's viewers to check the state of the backup. +* [conduitConfigDialog] Use the CE macro for general config pages. Tighten typing + on handleGeneralPages. Add names to the viewers tabs. Make unsaved-changes + message make sense. + +2004-04-11 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Fix the codec handling to use KGlobal::charsets. +* Implemented the startListening and stopListening methods of the daemon. +* Fixed the config dialog so that just showing a conduit's config widget + doesn't trigger the modified signal. +* Some cleanup in the daemon + +2004-04-10 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Split kpilot's configuration into several files, one for each conduit. + Also wrote a kconf_update script so the old settings are preserved. + We still need to sort out the remaining settings written to kpilotrc. +* Corrected all path variables in the .kcfg files from type String to Path +* The configuration wizard now also sets the conduits' settings to sensitive + defaults for the chosen application (kde pim, kontact, evolution) + +2004-04-10 Adriaan de Groot +* Move about in config dialog to sensible spot. Follow suggestions by Carlos + to simplify the config dialog a bit. Default general setup to open, even + if the message says it it for esoteric stuff. + +2004-04-09 Adriaan de Groot +* Work on docs. Accept patch from Joern for broken config in abbrowser + conduit. Receive docs patches from Carlos. + +2004-04-05 Adriaan de Groot +* Work on the Kontact plugin for KPilot, make daemon's installedConduits + DCOP call return human-readable names instead of internal stuff. + +2004-04-04 Adriaan de Groot +* Split out the general settings pages so that no tab widgets are + needed. Joern's title patch for those pages made the tabs weird + anyway, and now things are consistent, at least. We could move + the backup page to "Actions", if we want. + +2004-04-01 Adriaan de Groot +* Happy birthday to Mira, who has now managed to watch a whole + year of KPilot development, and has learned to sit up and say + "aya!" appreciatively when Daddy fixes a bug. Or something. + +2004-03-28 Adriaan de Groot +* Added a "reset daemon" button. Added whatsthis help to toolbar. +* Added a "suppress confirm" option to the notes conduit, partly + for 71122. +* Suppressed some more warnings. Fixed little buglets. Put off + testing 71122 as long as possible. + +2004-03-26 Adriaan de Groot +* Another day, another fix from Joern. +* Backported the fix for backup settings being ignored from Sebastian V. + (Actually, just used his original patch, which didn't use kcfgXT. +* Prevent sync when screen locked, as a security measure. +* Still haven't tested 69595 or 71122. Ugh. + +2004-03-24 Adriaan de Groot +* 71122 has been top of the list for over a week - not getting around to + it at all. Fixes elsewhere; working on getting a Linux machine up and + running to be able to run POSE with a null-modem pseudo-device. +* Another patch from Joern; arr, it's a learning experience! +* Removed logging weirdness in the fileinstall action. + +2004-03-19 Adriaan de Groot +* Discovered that the daemon's DCOP interface disappears after one + HotSync. Man, that's weird. Removed QString(CSL1()) constructs - + CSL1() returns a QString already. Using DCOPClient::attach() in + the pop conduit is a really bad idea! +* Picked bug 72251 to work on tonight. Closed another one related to + settings not propagating properly as well. +* Minor cleanup in the log on the pilot, get conduits to start on new lines. + Use correct name for icon. Handle FastSync correctly, don't queue all + the extra checks for it based on the sync settings (or do we want to + deprecate fastsync as a fNextSyncMode entirely?). At end of sync + reset next sync to normal. + +2004-03-17 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Implemented a first version of the config wizard. The code to autodetect + the device is not yet finished, though. +* Extended the daemon DCOP interface to stop listening and start listening + on the configured device (needed e.g. if some other application wants to + bind to that device for some time, like the autodetect dialog needs to). + Here, also the code for really (de-)attaching to the device is not there + yet, just the interface to the functions. + +2004-03-17 Adriaan de Groot +* Ripped out all the dead and broken and useless code in the mail + conduit, fixed up the code that was left, reduced the size of the + setup dialog, and ended up with something that actually works again. + Fixed bugs 60579 and 77948. +* Yet another patch from Joern, added him to credits, too. + +2004-03-15 Adriaan de Groot +* Patches from David Mott and Joern Ahrens today. Excellent! +* Worked on the docs and website some. + +2004-03-14 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Make sure the config is really read in in the vcal conduit's setup dlg. +* also the conduit version number of the vcal conduit needs to be really + written to the cfg file to make sure categories are really synced. So far, + the version number was not written to the config, which resulted in a full + sync every time! + +2004-03-13 Adriaan de Groot +* Stared at the screen for a while trying to think of how to test syncing + with my spare m100 without breaking my existing stuff from my m500. + And I realize that it means I need a second monitor and to run X dual-head. +* Some minor rearrangements in the config dialog again. +* Added configuration widget to perl conduit. + +2004-03-12 Adriaan de Groot +* Received patches from Joern Ahrens and Sebastian Voitzsch for + various issues. Thanks guys! It's contributions like this that + really inspire me to keep working on KPilot. Reinhold and I can't + do everything by ourselves. +* There will be tarballs of KPilot 4.4.2 soon; this will make it + possible to get the bugfixes from Joern and Sebastian - and others - + on your system now without waiting for another KDE release. + +2004-03-08 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Ported all conduits' setup dialog to the new style and remove all old code +* First steps for the config wizard. +* Updated the malconduit to work with libmal 0.4, too (using configure + checks, as the code is source-incompatible) +* Moved the kpilot config page to the correct place in the kontact + setup dlg hierarchy +* Fixed a crash in the old-style conduits' setup code (widget was removed + in favor of some other, but code still tried to access it) + +2004-03-08 Adriaan de Groot +* Wow, lots of activity by Reinhold. I hope he updates the ChangeLog + sometime as well. +* Revert the variable timeout, just do a straight 5 second wait, that + should just fix it, and save us a lot of trouble too. Anyway, who + wants to sync again within 5 seconds of the previous one finishing? + It's just as well that the value wasn't saved anywhere anyway. + +2004-03-05 Adriaan de Groot +* Spent most of the day putting together new tarballs, so I can push + KPilot improvements out the door again when needed. + +2004-03-02 Adriaan de Groot +* Add a variable timeout after the sync, specially for some T3 users. + Thanks to Alec Mitchell for pointing that out and providing an initial patch. + +2004-02-25 Adriaan de Groot +* In the KNotes conduit: Coding style fixes. Cleanup doubled strings. + Improved status reporting. Probably dealt with the memo viewer issue. +* Imported another patch from David Mott, for drag-n-drop file install. +* Added a config option and UI for running conduits during a backup. + Default to not, in order to fix bug 7xxxx. + + +2004-02-21 Adriaan de Groot +* At FOSDEM, not much hacking was done, but it was fun and boozy. + +2004-02-03 Adriaan de Groot +* I see lots of spelling fixes have been introduced in HEAD. Thanks, TLs. +* Plans for a photo conduit (Zire71) and a NotePad conduit are forming. + pilot-link has the relevant code already, it just needs to be fit + into KPilot's form. +* Worked on the KNotes conduit some more. Remember to update the + local database copy, and non-CopyHHtoPC code needs work. + +2004-01-31 Adriaan de Groot +* Finished up the KNotes conduit, I think. The copy to PC part was + a little over-enthusiastic. + +2004-01-25 Adriaan de Groot +* Fixed up copyright notices here and there. Dan is listed as copyright + holder in lots of files he's never worked on; since copyright cannot + be assigned except in writing, I'm going to have to take responsibility + for my parts. +* Fixed up conduit modes in kpilotTest. +* Removed compile warnings in the vcal conduit. +* Moved 72342 to top of list, since now I got HHtoPC copy + working in kpilotTest I can actually _see_ the bug. It seems to be in + PilotMemo. + +2004-01-20 Adriaan de Groot +* Added experimental A-A-P build system. +* Cleanups in conduit config, added stub buttons for wizards. + +2004-01-16 Adriaan de Groot +* De-tabified ChangeLog again. +* Updated version. Hope that \374 makes sense (it's a ΓΌ). +* Added explanation for "Actions" page in config. Ditto for "Conduits". + Prevent user from collapsing the tree. +* Fixup layout for popmail conduit when including it in the config dialog. +* Experimental stab at separating the config into separate bits in the + new KCM config dialog. + +2004-01-02 - 2004-01-11 Reinhold Kainhofer +* This was work done in osnabrueck_branch, at the 2004 kdepim meeting + and the week afterwards. This issue is one of the feature targets + for the kdepim 3.3 release in Q1 2004. +* Moved the general setup dialog from a separate dialog to a page of + the conduit config dlg. Combined the kpilot setup and conduit config + dialog to one dialog. +* Implemented the kontact plugin for KPilot (showing status information) +* Added three DCOP functions to the daemon for querying status information +* Hotsync log is written out to a file (~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/lastsync.log) +* Converted all conduits to KConfig XT (mail und kroupware still missing) +* Converted the config dialog to a KCM module +* KPilot plugin for contact: shows status in summary and makes config available +* kpilotDaemon sends a DCOP signal when its settings/state are changed +* New DCOP functions in the daemon to query its state and settings +* the kontact plugin also detects if the daemon is quit +* Use a QSplitter in the config dialog instead of the QHBox layout +* implemented the kconf_update scripts to move groupless entries to the + [General] group +* Still missing: + o) KConfig sync between the three processes working on the + kpilot config: kpilot, kpilotDaemon and possibly kontact + with the kpilot plugin + o) Wizard to setup kpilot correctly for kontact (the defaults + should suffice, just in case someone played around and + messed them up) + + +2004-01-02 - 2004-01-04 Adriaan de Groot +* This was work done in osnabrueck_branch, at the 2004 kdepim meeting. +* Fixed the TODO_I18N -> they're all i18n() now. +* Discovered ttypatch, which is da bong. Thanks to Dan Clemmensen + for writing it, and Bernhard Reiter for showing it to me. All of + a sudden, POSE actually looks usable. + +2004-01-02 Adriaan de Groot +* Non-functional commits all over; split off osnabrueck_branch. +* Naming changes in todo conduit. +* Fix sync race in knotes conduit. + +2003-12-29 Adriaan de Groot +* Reenabled the popmail conduit, but in severely limited form. + +2003-12-28 Adriaan de Groot +* Committed the knotes stuff, since it does do HH->PC properly. OTOH, + I don't think the mode code is right in that conduit either. +* Stared at various bugs that I can't reproduce. +* Looked into #69987, changed some names in the todo conduit. +* Changed the parts of the changelog to real changelog format + (dates must be yyyy-mm-dd, with leading zeroes if needed). + +2003-12-23 Adriaan de Groot +* Added recent hardware reports. If you reported something and I've + forgotten it, please send me a gentle reminder. +* Added IrDA howto from Stuart, who failed to provide an email + address that I can respond to. +* I think I got the KNotes conduit working again, but it needs some + testing so that change hasn't been committed yet. + +2003-12-12 Adriaan de Groot +* Reduce warnings in vcalconduit. + +2003-12-10 Adriaan de Groot +* Fix for #66321 - fill in a default value for the vcal file. + +2003-12-05 Adriaan de Groot +* Het heerlijk avondje is gekomen. Damn right it is. + +2003-12-02 Adriaan de Groot +* Removed #if 0'ed code; moved some deprecated code to #if 0; removed + use of deprecated stuff. Fixed up includes. + +2003-11-23 Adriaan de Groot +* Minor string fixups that don't affect TL. + +2003-11-22 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Fixed the broken conduit config dialog (wasn't able to show config + widgets of more than one conduit. If you configured one conduit, and + switched to another, its config widget couldn't be added to the stack). +* Configure conduits dialog now has an apply button. + +2003-10-21 Adriaan de Groot +* Updated the website some with lots of new hardware. Thanks to + everyone who reported new stuff. + +2003-10-10 Adriaan de Groot +* Sure, we let the ChangeLog slide, but didn't do much, I don't + think, over the summer. Main point is that AAP can pretty much + build KPilot now, suck to be auto* and make. + +2003-07-30 Reinhold Kainhofer +* The addressbook conduit now uses a different algorithm to find + the type of address on the PC to sync with. + First, if there is a preferred address (no matter if home, work + or whatever), this one is synced to the handheld. If no preferred + address exists, either home or work (depending on the setting in + the conduit config dialog) is used for the sync. If that doesn't + exist, either, the other one (work/home) is tried. If that also + doesn't exist, and the address is copied to the PC, its type is + set to preferred+the setting from the config dialog. + This fixes both bugs #50560 (conduit should sync with preferred + address) as well as bug #60659 (conduit should use the existing + address from the PC, even if the type is not the one chosen in + the config dialog). (also backported to BRANCH) +* Allow two addressbook entries with the same name and organization, + but different phones, addresses etc. Actually, it allows entries + which are equal up to at least one entry. This fixes bug #59569. +* Fixed bug #60691 where events recurring monthly on a given weekday + were shifted by one day. (also backported to BRANCH) +* Also, when initializing a LocalCalendar, you are not supposed + to give a time zone... +* Also, fixed infinite loop glitch by Cornelius. +* If the user chose to sync to an iCalendar file instead of the + standard (resource) calendar, and he gave an empty or invalid + file name, an error message is now written out to inform him/her + about the problem. + I don't want to ask him for a file name, because one of the + guidelines of conduit development is that a sync should be able + to run without user intervention. + this should probably also be backported, but it introduces two + new i18n strings, so it is not possible. Thus the bug will remain + in 3.1 branch. +* Fixed the toolbar configuration. + +2003-07-27 Reinhold Kainhofer +* The internal editor action now displays the contents of the conflicting + records and lets the user decide which one overrides (Fixes bug #61103). +* For this I added a function getTextRepresentation(bool richText) to + PilotAppCategory, PilotAddress, PilotMemo, PilotDateEnty and PilotTodoEnty, + which returns the contents of the record as a string that can be displayed + to the user. Moved that code from the internal viewers to the classes. +* If there is no nice-text representation, I now use KHE::KHexEdit to + show the raw contents, so the user gets an idea of the conflicting records. + + +2003-07-26 Adriaan de Groot +* Time flies when you're having fun and mucking with other + bits of KDE. Worked on meinproc, build fixes, dependencies, etc. + +2003-07-26 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Changed a few accelerators (duplicates reported by Dr.Klash) +* Also show items marked as deleted in the GenericDB viewer. +* All conduits now have their own copy of the handheld's database + in $KDEHOME/share/apps/kpilot/conduits/UserName/*.pdb. This was + needed so that backup runs don't break the conduit's algorithm to + detect changed records on the PC. So far, we compared each entry + to the corresponding entry in the backup database. It that changed, + basically we are screwed. + For this new feature I extended the constructur of PilotLocalDatabase + to take an additional boolean parameter useConduitDBs. If that is set, + the db will be opened in ..../conduits/Username/ +* Do not return "Unfiled" or "Nicht abgelegt" as category label + if no category is set. Instead return an empty string. +* Added isArchived() and makeArchived() methods to PilotAppCategory + to set the dlpRecArchived flag. +* Changed the way how the DBBackup/username/ and conduits/username/ + directories are created (now I'm using KStandardDirs::makeDir and + KStandardDirs::exists). +* FirstSync now also means PC->HH or HH->PC directions (which is clear + intuitively, as with these direction, nothing that's on the other + side should matter at all). +* Added eDelete to the sync actions in the SyncAction class + + +2003-07-15 to 2003-7-26 Reinhold Kainhofer +Complete rewrite of the addressbook conduit (for the, umhh, third(?) time). +* NEW FEATURE: custom fields can now also be synced with + birth date, URL, ICQ, etc. (bug #50871) +* Conflict resolution shows the whole conflicting item + and all conflicting fields (so far, every conflicting + field was shown on its own, bug #59222). The conflict + resolution is done completely independent from the addressee + object and might so be reused later in other conduits as well. +* Separated the mechanism to detect changes from the mechanism + to sync/merge addressees. This makes the whole thing a lot + easier to understand and maintain, and there are far less + cases you have to consider. +* the conduit now obeys the global conflict resolution (ask, + PC overrides, HH overrides, last sync overrides, duplicate) + and sync direction (fast, full, only PC->HH, only HH->PC) + settings. Bug #59220. +* The "only HH->PC" and "only PC->HH" sync directions first + copy all existing entries to the receiving end, and only then + remove all other entries from there. This avoids data loss if + the connection breaks while such a special sync is running. +* Added a crash handler to clean up the addressbook if the + conduit crashes. + +2003-07-11 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Records in the PilotLocalDatabase with ID 0 (i.e. new records + added by KPilot's internal editors) will always be treated as + modified records and found by readNextModifiedRecord, even if + they don't have the dirty flag set. This ensures that all new + records from KPilot will be added to the handheld +* Finished the internal todo editor: + Entries can be maked completed and edited directly in the check + list view. + Moved the editor dialog to a designer ui file instead of a + manually created layout +* Finished the sync action that copies the changes done in the + internal editors of KPilot to the handheld. So, finally, the + internal viewers/editors of KPilot are working again, unlike + the last few years, where they were in a terribly broken state. + +2003-06-01 to 2003-7-10 Reinhold Kainhofer +* I was busy with a lot of stuff from KPilot, none of which is actually + in a state where I can commit it. In particular, I'm working on + -) Custom field sync of the addressbook conduit + -) Make the conflict resolution of the abook conduit more + intuitive (ask just once for each conflicting address) + -) Finish up the todo editor + -) Make the generic DB viewer an editor (more or less finished, + but the KHexEdit widget is not yet publically available, so + I can't commit that part either) + -) Implement the InternalEditorAction which syncs the changes + done in the internal editors/viewers to the handheld + + +KPilot Developer's notes for July 9th +===================================== + +2003-7-9 Adriaan de Groot +* Ditched spurious code in KNotes conduit config. Updated copyrights, + still assigned to Dan. Updated the notes interface stubs. + +2003-7-7 Adriaan de Groot +* Added a conduit description to PalmDOC. Well, fixed the "Conduit" + vs. "Comment" typo in the .desktop file. + +2003-7-6 Adriaan de Groot +* Made the bugreport and question and help links in the about pages + clickable through KActiveLabel. Made the credits text scrollable + with a QTextEdit. +* Weird redraw bugs reappear in the conduit config dialog, fixed again. +* Added sorryVersionOutdated() to KPilotConfig to notify user that + the configs are old, and telling what's changed. Used in kpilot and + the daemon. Includes cleanup. Use getDebugLevel() properly. + +2003-7-5 Adriaan de Groot +* Upped the config version number to 440. +* Worked on the docs (really!), so the HEAD docs now reflect _some_ of + the reality of KPilot 4.4.0. Noted lots of inconsistencies. + Put in lots of TODO's, and the whole thing needs going over. +* Using the trademark HotSync in the GUI might not be a good idea. + Removed where I could, added a trademark reference in the about pages. + +2003-7-5 Adriaan de Groot +* Renamed all conduit plugins from lib<bla>conduit (and variants) to + conduit_<bla>, so that they're easier to identify in $KDEDIR/lib/kde3. + Of course, this doesn't work right. Feh. +* Removed listCat again. +* Implemented a notion of "internal conduit", so that we can move + the "install files" and "kroupware" stuff to the conduit config + dialog and out of the general stuff, where it looks weird. + +2003-7-4 Adriaan de Groot +* Removed the words "KPilot", "KDE" and "Conduit" from all the conduit names. +* Removed double logging in NULL conduit, added message for explicit fail. + Use the generic config dialog implementation. I see now that the NULL + conduit isn't built or installed anymore. Fixed its .desktop comment. +* Disabled the expenses and popmail conduit from compiling. +* Made new-style config for the vcal conduit. Made new-style config for the + todo conduit. Stripped out lots of extra #includes. Stripped out extra + Q_OBJECT macros. Reduced space in widget some. Fixed void return 0; + Fixed improper AboutData in todo conduit. +* New-style for abbrowser. Minor == vs = mixup. +* Shrunk margin for kpilot config dialog. Use the available charsets from + KDE instead of our own list. Added a quit-after-sync option. + + + +2003-6-29 Adriaan de Groot +* Added some code validation support to plugin.h +* Messed about with popmail's config. What was the firewall stuff for? + Created new-style configs, didn't complete the load/save code, and + then sortof gave up because is there really any point to doing this + conduit without switching to the SMTP ioslave? And using identities + then? + +2003-6-26 Adriaan de Groot +* Removed stupid comment in popmail/Makefile.am + +2003-6-25 Adriaan de Groot +* Be consistent about naming the sysinfo conduit "System Information" + in user-visible strings. +* Remove "conduit" from the name of the Palm DOC conduit, and add a + new-style config panel to it. Made it resize properly. +* Note that ConduitConfigBase::load() and its overrides should set + fModified to false. + +2003-6-22 Adriaan de Groot +* Turn off NO_CAST_ASCII when doing DEBUG_CERR, because ostream is + lacking an operator << for QString. (Nicer is probably to add + such an operator, but hey.) +* Removed uselessly virtual conduitName() function from conduit classes. + No-one was overriding it anyway. +* The vcal and abbrowser conduits shouldn't be compiled if you're building + KPilot HEAD on older systems. + +2003-6-21 Adriaan de Groot +* Fixed up the layout of the sysinfo conduit. +* Documented ConduitConfigBase::isModified() and made it virtual. +* Fixed up the sysinfo conduit and saving modified entries. +* Moved the --debug argument to all apps individually. + +2003-6-20 Adriaan de Groot +* Updated the hardware lists on the website. +* Updated some "What's This?" texts. +* Removed evil static QStrings in kpilotConfigDialog.cc. +* Discovered that the "start at login" functionality has been broken forever. +* Added a workaround for KTimeWidget not present in KDE 3.1.x. + +2003-6-20 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Implemented the dialog to change the database flags and the dates (DBInfo + struct) in the internal generic DB viewer. PilotLocalDatabase got a new + method setDBInfo for this. +* Implemented creating, editing and deleting records in the generic DB editor. +* Added the CHexViewWidget from khexedit to the kpilot/kpilot/ directory. + There are still several open issues with it (i.e. how do I set the data + at all???) + +2003-6-19 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Implemented the list of records in the generic DB viewer. To be + able to sort the records by their index, I had to write my own + compare method of the QListViewItem, which compares the numerical + representation of the column entries. For large DBs (>300 records) + this is way too slow (QString::toULong for each comparison, increasing + with n*n), so I had to implement some caching. Now even large databases + are sorted very fast. + +2003-6-16 Reinhold Kainhofer +* First layout of the internal calendar viewer/editor. The KDatePicker + poses a big problem to me as it swallows all toolbar buttons. +* Implemented a InternalEditorAction to sync changes done to the databases + in the internal viewers. Every PilotComponent that changes a database + needs to mark it as dirty (e.g. markDBDirt("AddressDB")) so the + Action knows which databases need to be considered. + +2003-6-15 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Implemented a first layout of the generic database viewer. To view + the records, I'd need a hex editor, which is not available in KDE, yet. + I tried using the widget that khexedit uses, but somehow I can't get + it to work :-(( + +KPilot Developer's notes for June 15th, 2003 +============================================ + +2003-6-15 Adriaan de Groot +* Yay, father's day. Which includes me. Mira drew me a wonderful card. +* Fixed some TL problems in debug output, and added documentation. + +2003-6-14 Adriaan de Groot +* Fixed the conduit config dialog's repaint and behavior problems by + ditching the .ui file and implementing it by hand again. I'll look + into a switch back to .ui later. + +2003-6-12 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Tracked down why the handheld crashes with Invalid UniqueID error + message (bugs #59313 and #51216). RecordIDs are supposed to be 3 + bytes, and the handheld will crash if they are longer. For some + reason, several entries in the calendar or the addressbook were + assigned longer Record IDs, so I added a check for invalid values + before sending them to the handheld. This fixes the symptoms (i.e. + these crashes won't appear in the future again, and new valid ids + will be assigned), but there is still another bug that assigned + the wrong values in the first place... + +2003-6-9 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Fixed crash from bug #59315. I used the value of a char as a char*, + in the code for extension cards in the sysinfo conduit. pilot-link + doesn't detect my Clie's memory stick as extension card so this code + was never executed on my machine, and I didn't detect the bug myself. + +2003-6-1 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Fixed several (possible and really occurring) null pointer crashes +* Submited most of the items in our TODO list as bugs or wishes on + bugs.kde.org + +2003-5-31 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Restructured the setup dialog of KPilot. Several per-conduit + settings were moved to global settings. The conduits now have + isFullSync(), isFirstSync(), getSyncDirection(), and + getConflictResolution() members for these settings. I think I fixed + all conduits to use these new settings and didn't miss anything. +* The Backup works again (fast sync doesn't do a backup, hot sync + does conduits and a fast backup, full sync does a full backup where + the modified flags are ignored). Also added a fast backup where + only modified records are retrieved. + + +2003-6-1 Adriaan de Groot +* pilotComponent.cc Another fix for 52138 - I'd missed the category + drop-down box. +* Woo. After months of wrestling, I actually managed to run KPilotTest + and list the contents of my m500. Sometimes, there is something + to be said for Linux and a working USB stack. This means I have + limited testing hardware available again. +* Minor fixups to make HEAD compile with 3.1.x again. + +2003-5-31 Adriaan de Groot +* Updated my build environment to HEAD. This will leave some people + in the dust, for sure, since 4.4.0 will thus have an address conduit + that requires HEAD, not 3.1.x. Perhaps we can ship two tarballs, + but that's going to start to be messy again. +* Talked to lioux about conduits and categories on IRC. It seems + that PC->Palm syncs usually respect categories and such, but Palm->PC + doesn't, among other little tidbits. He'll file bug reports. + + +KPilot Developer's notes for May 30th, 2003 +=========================================== + +2003-5-30 Adriaan de Groot +* Spent this week at conferences (Mira at 8 weeks was the + youngest attendee of the EEF School on Formal Methods, + though I doubt she'll remember how to do protocol + verification in PVS). + +2003-5-19 Reinhold Kainhofer +* This weekend I wrote this new conduit for KPilot, called + sysinfoconduit. It writes all important Palm system information + to a text or html file. For an example, see + http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/Linux/KPilot/KPilotSysInfo.html. + The output is completely customizable via templates. Currently, + txt and html templates are available, but the user can provide + his/her own template in the conduit configuration dialog. The + current html template uses css for the markup, and passes the + w3c html validator without warnings. + Hopefully, the debug output section will help us kpilot developers + track down problems easier (the users can send us the output of + this conduit, and we can let it write out all important stuff we + need/want to see). + +2003-5-11 Adriaan de Groot +* kpilotDCOP.h Changed enum values so that you can distinguish + between call failed and normal operation. +* conduitConfigDialog.cc When closing config dialog, release last + selected conduit. + +2003-5-9 Adriaan de Groot +* Fixed up some config issues in the NULL conduit. +* Added conduitName() to conduit config things and their actions, + to provide a user-readable name for the conduit. + +2003-5-5 Adriaan de Groot +* plugin.{h,cc} Added a maybeSave() function for the new conduit config + style. Removed some unused variables. +* conduitConfigDialog.{h,cc} Using maybeSave() to save or cancel selection + changes. + +2003-5-3 Adriaan de Groot +* Spent lots of time panicing my system and causing fatal exceptions + on my Pilot by playing with pilot-link 0.11.7 and FreeBSD's USB + stack. +* kpilotlink.cc Suppress printing the "accidentally in acceptDevice" + more than once. Try to escape from the infinite socketnotifier loop. + + +2003-5-2 Adriaan de Groot +* Aiming for bi-weekly notes this month again. +* Looks like I reverted the PRETTY_FUNCTION printing. +* I'm working from an everything-HEAD-except vcal and abbrowser + checkout, because the new resources framework breaks everything. +* Next KPilot tarballs will be 4.4.0 (HEAD) release. + +KPilot Developer's notes for April 30th, 2003 +============================================= + +2003-4-25 Adriaan de Groot +* Updated resizing action in the conduit config dialog. +* Added a ConduitConfigBase to the knotes conduit. +* Changed a bunch of Name[] entries for the time conduit. We + need shorter names; most of them are horribly redundant. +* Noticed that the conduit checklist items don't always get + painted right. Added a workaround. + +2003-4-24 Adriaan de Groot +* More work on the conduit configuration stuff. +* Make FUNCTIONSETUP print PRETTY_FUNCTION instead of just FUNCTION. +* Added a ConduitConfigBase object to the time conduit. + +2003-4-22 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Cleanup of several cout and other debug messages +* In the addressbook and todo conduits, after the sync the AppInfoBlock + is written back to the databases so that adding categories to the + database finally works. + +2003-4-21 Adriaan de Groot +* Changed the description for the KPilot NULL conduit to just "NULL", + since both "KPilot" and "conduit" are redundant in this context. +* Messed around a little with the types of plugin code, created a + class ConduitConfigBase which is supposed to supplant the current + config widget stuff. + +2003-4-21 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Implemented different ways to convert the bookmarks in the doc + conduit when doing Handheld->PC sync. +* Some tab order fixes in several conduit setup dialogs. +* Improved the question when the handheld and the KPilot user + names don't match. + +2003-4-20 Adriaan de Groot +* Added the sources for a generic DB viewer and a datebook viewer. + These don't show up anywhere yet though. The datebook viewer has + no functionality yet. +* kpilot.cc Minor change to detect non-functioning daemon better. +* Restored the tooltip code to the conduit config dialog. Removed + the "description" column again. +* uiDialog.{h,cc} Moved the addAboutPage() code to a static function so + that it can be reused elsewhere. +* plugin.{h,cc} Added a new base class ConduitConfigBase for deriving + the configuration widgets for conduits from. This will make them + more generically pluggable. + +2003-4-19 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Fixed the categories sync in both the addressbook and the todo conduits. + +2003-4-18 Adriaan de Groot +* Laurent Montel did some compile fixes for restrictive (NO_ASCII_ ...) + compile environments. And I fixed them to match the coding guide. +* Make file installer emit a [] message like the conduits do, to + give the "No files to install" message context. Tell the user how + many files will be installed. +* Tell the user if the daemon can't be started. Tell the user what + charset is selected. + + +2003-4-17 Adriaan de Groot +* Finished moving the conduit config to checklist items. Worked out + a sensible compromise with the command buttons. The conduit + descriptions (comment lines in the .desktop files) need work. + +2003-4-16 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Tried to add a logMessagePart slot which would append some words + to the last line of the sync log (but would not start a new paragraph, + and more text could be added to the last paragraph). Realized that this + is not possible in a QTextEdit with LogText, and using RichText is too + buggy to be useful. However, I found a way to get rid of the pseudo- + progressbar in the libmal output, so this is not an issue any longer. + +2003-4-16 Adriaan de Groot +* Moved conduit config to a list of QCheckListItems, finally. + This was easier than I thought. Took a bit of time to polish, + though. This change introduces a new class ConduitConfigWidget + which could be placed in a tab elsewhere if needed. + +2003-4-15 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Finally fixed the configure.in.in check for libmal in the malconduit +* calendar conduit had wrong RadioButton IDs, so the Resource and LocalCalendar + settings were messed upt + +2003-4-14 Adriaan de Groot +* Made some reasonable mock-ups, see my kpilot page, mulled over the + non-editing by the viewers. I'm now working in HEAD only. +* kpilot.{h,cc} Fixed up backwards compatibility. + +2003-4-12 Adriaan de Groot +* Mucking about with KPilot's UI again. Trying to remove dialogs + and to make the viewers just viewers. + +2003-4-1 Adriaan de Groot +* My daughter, Mira Annelie Engel, was born this evening and is a + bouncing healthy girl. But she's going to put a crimp in KPilot + development, that's for sure. + +KPilot Developer's notes for March 26th, 2003 +============================================= + +2003-3-26 Adriaan de Groot +* pilotLocalDatabase.cc [BOTH] Qt 3.0 compatibility. +* More merging: lib/ just spacing fixes. +* kpilot/ In HEAD, muck about with the toggle actions that were removed + from kpilot.cc. This stuff is supposed to build in all KDE 3.x. +* I've been thinking about _where_ to hack next. HEAD is evolving + further under Reinhold's influence, and I feel pretty much stymied + in BRANCH because I can't touch strings and the like. However, I'm + still running KDE 3.1 and dedicated to KDE 3.0 compatibility as well. + Since the things I want to change are in lib/ and kpilot/ and affect + strings, I'm going to pick up those from HEAD, but stick to BRANCH + conduits for the next while. Then I can catch up with HEAD in the + conduits one by one. So initial KPilot 4.4.x tarballs will be from + a mix of CVS branches. We might consider doing the conduit releases + separately from KPilot itself - more 3rd party-ish - since the conduits + change far more drastically than KPilot itself. + + Initial plans for 4.4.0: disable editing in the viewers ; move the + configuration things into the JanusWidget, and out of separate dialogs. + +2003-3-24 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Adapted the layout of the addressbook conduit's setup dialog to + resemble the one from the calendar/todo conduit +* Addressbook conduit: Implemented the option to sync with an + arbitrary vcard file instead of only the standard addressbook. + This actually involved quite a lot of dealing with resources, + factories etc., so I'm still looking for an easier way to + obtain the addressbook from a single local vcard file. + +2003-3-23 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Lot of work on the docconduit. Finished the KPalmDOC application. + It converts text files to .pdb files that can be viewed as ebooks + on the handheld. The user can either convert single text files + to or from PalmDOC .pdb files, or choose a directory, where all + *.txt or *.pdb files will be converted to another directory. + I created some icons by just putting the text mime-type icon + behind the kpilot icon, so the icons don't look too well. All artists + are welcome to improve them. +* Tried to implement a configure option for libmal, and use autoconf's + built-in functionality to detect libmal. Doesn't work yet, so I + haven't committed it yet. + +2003-3-23 Adriaan de Groot +* More merging .. conduits today: +* null/ There's a single string change, "Failure" -> "failure". +* expense/ knotes/ Nothing changed - except the Makefile.am, + which breaks things in HEAD. +* malconduit/ "" -> QString() for QString cleanness. Some authors + should have been credits. There's still a spelling fix string + change in HEAD. Lots of spacing updates. + +2003-3-21 Adriaan de Groot +* Heh, noone ever noticed the "Edit Toolbars" menu item called the + "Edit Keyboard Shortcuts" dialog. + +2003-3-20 Adriaan de Groot +* Merging between BRANCH and HEAD. +* options.h [BRANCH] Upped the version number again. +* lib/ [BOTH] Merged documentation, fixed minor bug in plugin.cc in HEAD. +* kpilot/ [BOTH] Merged stuff. +* pilotDaemon.{h,cc} [HEAD] The daemon has extra DCOP features and kroupware. +* kpilot.h [HEAD] Extra in-use code and Ben's removal of toolbars + (supported by standards in KDE 3.2 - this needs backporting and + #ifdeffing). +* conduitConfigDialog.cc [HEAD] Has all the setup stuff for the checkbox + list conversion (a GJJ) but #if 0'ed out. +* kpilotConfig{Dialog,}.{h,cc} [HEAD] Adds a GUI for the pilot encoding. +* kpilotDCOP.h [HEAD] Extra configure methods from David. +* listCat.h [BOTH] One-up the spelling mafia. + +2003-3-17 Adriaan de Groot +* [fileInstallWidget.cc] Applied file-installer multiselect patch + from Ulrik Mikaelsson. +* [pilotDaemon.cc] Applied DCOP interface additions from David Mott. + +2003-3-15 Adriaan de Groot +* The popmail conduit runs in backup mode during syncs. So do all the + other conduits. What's going on? Thanks to Tobia Baier for spotting this. + Worse still, the bug comes from the difference between & and &&. Fixed. +* syncStack.cc [BOTH] Fixed --backup bug. +* David Mott is back with more patches, but he's got competition from + Ulrik Mikaelsson, who's also doing GJJs. + +KPilot Developer's notes for March 12th, 2003 +============================================= + +2003-3-12 Adriaan de Groot +* Lots of administrivia changes, like the FSF address. +* Really ought to merge the copyright changes into BRANCH, since they're + still being released with weird copyright assignments. +* vcal conduit in local-test mode will write out an .ics. + +2003-3-4 Adriaan de Groot +* Welcome back to David Mott, author of several patches already and + ready to dive into the code again for GJJs. Happy distraction, dude. +* [vcal-conduitbase.cc] Checked against wrong KDE_VERSION. [BRANCH] +* Various merging from BRANCH to HEAD. Layout fixups here and there. +* Test mode in the vcal conduit by default uses local databases from + /tmp. + +2003-3-3 Adriaan de Groot +* pilotDatabase.h [BRANCH] Merged additional parameters to findDatabase + from HEAD. Merged every other change in lib/ from BRANCH to HEAD. +* pilotRecord.{h,cc} [BRANCH] Added instrumentation for alloc/delete count. + +2003-3-2 Adriaan de Groot +* Continued instrumentation of the vcal conduit. + +2003-3-2 Reinhold Kainhofer +* the DOC conduit now also finds the correct sync direction + if the user only wants PC->PDA or only PDA->PC sync. + Also, if a text was deleted on one side, it is also deleted + on the other end +* The resolution dialog of the DOC conduit now uses a QScrollView + instead of a QTable for the list of conflicting texts +* In the DOC conduit, regular expressions as bookmark names work + now. E.g. a bookmark search string of "return (\S+);" and a + bookmark name of "RetVal: $1" or "RetVal: \1" replaces all $i or + \i by the i-th subexpression of the match. +* DOC databases are now also kept locally if the user set this option + (installDatabases has the addidtional argument not to delete + the files) +* The calendar and todo conduits now use the standard calendar by + default. The user can also specify a single file to sync with + instead of the whole calendar. +* The calendar and todo conduits use identical setup dialogs, so + there is no reason for code duplication. Removed the setup dialog + of the todo conduit and derived it from the calendar conduit setup + dialog. +* Updated the copyright lines in the source files as well as + in the about tabs of kpilot and the conduits. +* Since we have the calendar resource framework, the calendarr conduit + can run even while korganizer has the calendar open without causing + calendar corruption. So I removed the check for running korganizer + and alarm daemon + + +2003-2-28 Adriaan de Groot +* Discovered that the changes from 2003-1-31 to syncAction.{h,cc} + had disappeared in some of my periodic CVS screwups. Re-did them. +* vcal-conduitbase.{h,cc} [BRANCH] Added more instruments for + running test mode. + +2003-2-27 Adriaan de Groot +* Merged Reinhold's print-conduit-id patch from HEAD. +* Continued updating the documentation. Ripped out the revision + history, Lauri says I'm the only developer in the history of + KDE to actually maintain it in the docs. +* Updated version to 4.3.9 now that 4.3.8 is out. +* Started work on a real test mode for the vcal conduit. +* syncStack.cc [BRANCH] Set conduit action name to the conduit's name. + +KPilot Developer's notes for February 26th, 2003 +================================================ + +2003-2-26 Adriaan de Groot +* Finally solved KDE 3.0 build issues, incorporated minor fixes, updated + build scripts and RELEASED KPILOT 4.3.8. Get it from the website, + possibly in a few hours after it updates or from my personal + backup copy (replace pilone by adridg in the URL). + +KPilot Developer's notes for February 14th, 2003 +================================================ + +2003-2-14 Adriaan de Groot +* Happy Valentine's Day, eh. Remember guys, today your girlfriend + _is_ more important than hacking. Which reminds me .. + +2003-2-13 Adriaan de Groot +* kpilotLink.{h,cc} [BRANCH] Added a messagesType flag to distinguish + error messages from normal once-only messages in shouldPrint(). + Print out device name before opening in open(). + +2003-2-12 Adriaan de Groot +* Applied David Mott's DCOP patches to HEAD. Also applied his RMB + patches to HEAD. This takes care of some GJJs. +* memoWidget.cc [BOTH] Replaced the label "Memos:" beside the + category combobox by "Category:" which is also used by the + address widget. Kept the old string around for safekeeping. +* Dealing with non-latin1 Pilots again, now in Russian. And it + _seems_ to work. I think last week's changes were sufficiently + general. Added in the rest of the Pilot languages as well, + from the JPilot source. + +2003-2-10 Adriaan de Groot +* popmail-conduit.cc [HEAD] Did some actual TODO_I18N work, + removed printfs from the message construction in the conduit. + Added a GJJ for it. +* pilotDaemon.cc has lots of Kroupware additions in HEAD and + also changes "unix" -> "KDE" in the about box. +* conduitConfigDialog.cc has lots of new code for changing the + conduit list to a list of checkboxes. +* kpilotConfigDialog_base has been edited in HEAD for new Kroupware + options. Same with kpilotConfigDialog.cc, kpilotConfig.{h,cc}. +* conduitSetup.cc may be deprecated, but there was a minor difference + between files. HEAD <- BRANCH (ie. HEAD gets BRANCH version). +* hotSync.cc variable names changed, BRANCH <- HEAD. +* interactiveSync.cc typos and latin1() fixes. BRANCH <-> HEAD. +* logWidgetDCOP.h still had Log: tag in it,. removed [HEAD,BRANCH] +* abbrowser conduit has new custom field code. Did BRANCH <- HEAD + for the includes, though, just to normalize 'em. But, to quote + TMBG, "Who keeps moving my #includes?" The only unmerged stuff + that _could_ be merged is minor code beautification in + @@ -1496,22 +1563,26 @@ +* Should re-add a Pilot*Database constructor that takes a const char * + for those places that already have a dbName. +* vcalconduit has startOffset() support for alarms. + + +2003-2-9 Adriaan de Groot (merge status) +* Merging. I hate merging. We _definitely_ need a better process for + this, like merging every fix into HEAD as soon as it's done. That + would save a lot of effort, I think. And I'm going to check out + KPilot with -kk for merging efforts from now on. Here's the list + of features I found in HEAD that are not in BRANCH: + - KPilotDeviceLink::installFiles() extra arguments. + - KPilotDeviceLink::findDatabase() extra arguments. + - PilotDatabase::createDatabase() and deleteDatabase() added. + - Pilot*Database::readNextModifiedRec() extra arguments. + - Pilot*Database::deleteRecord() added. + - PilotLocalDatabase::PilotLocalDatabase extra arguments. + - FileInstallWidget lots of changes. FileInstaller as well. [MERGED] +* Managed to revert, prevert, and advert syncStack.{h,cc} all in + one go. I think I have it back to normal now. + +KPilot Developer's notes for February 7th, 2003 +=============================================== + +* KPilot 4.3.7 is released. Tarballs on the website tonight. +* Need to backport the changes from 2002-11-10 to BRANCH. +* Grep for and destroy latin1() calls in code. These are now in + the code to keep KPilot working under QT_NO_ASCII_CAST conditions, + but should all be replaced by the proper functions instead - either + QFile::encodeName() or by updating other functions to take QStrings + instead of const char *, and using the Pilot codec where appropriate. +* Reinhold's on vacation for a little while. + +2003-2-7 Adriaan de Groot +* Updated the website some. +* options.h [BRANCH] Version number now 4.3.7. + +2003-2-6 Adriaan de Groot +* Did a big chunk of merging from BRANCH to HEAD. Discovered two + things that didn't work well: + - Changes in the abbrowser conduit wrt. getCustomField() + - Memo widget optimizations + I hope I got them right. I'm going back to work in BRANCH. +* Constant strings in the source are now (almost all) marked + with CSL1() for Constant String Latin 1. This reduces the + number of hits for [lL]atin1. The macro uses a syntactic trick + to make sure it's only applied to constant strings. + + +2003-2-5 Adriaan de Groot +* Almost everywhere [BRANCH] Search and destroyed latin1(). +* options.h [BRANCH] Handle <kdebugclasses.h> properly. Um, sort of. + The dag-blabbed file is obsolete in KDE 3.2, required in 3.1, and + incomplete in 3.0. Ignore it instead. Ignore all the fancy Q* + operator <<s and do it all by hand. + +2003-2-2 Adriaan de Groot +* conduitConfigDialog.cc [HEAD] Started inserting code for improved + conduit selection and activation. +* kpilot.cc [BRANCH] Improve perceived startup time by delaying + the loading of databases till the GUI is up. +* options.h [BRANCH] To enforce discipline, use NO_ASCII_CAST. + NOT COMMITTED - it'll break a lot of debug stuff as well. + However, as an occasional test, it's a good idea. +* {many files} [BRANCH] Clean up random char * conversions. +* kpilotConfig.{h,cc} [BRANCH] Introduce config entry for encoding. +* kpilot.cc pilotDaemon.cc pilotAppCategory.h pilotRecord.cc [BRANCH] + Use the config entry for encoding. Applications that use any + PilotAppCategory derived class - ie. that interpret data from the + Pilot in any way - should call setupPilotCodec() beforehand with + the name of the encoding (QString::null == "ISO8859-1", the default, + or use something like "Shift-JIS"). +* pilotMemo.{h,cc} memoWidget.cc [BRANCH] Use the codec for the returned + title of the memo. This is the first step on making PilotMemo return + everything in QString format suitable for any encoding. In order to + change the encoding, add + Encoding=<name> + to the kpilotrc file in the top part (ie. after DeviceName). + +2003-2-1 Adriaan de Groot +* Some time spent tracking down double activations of slowShowMemo(). +* memoWidget.{h,cc} [BRANCH] Removed double initialization. Removed + heavy-handed initialize() call after memo deletion. Found potential + data-loss bug with deleting memos after unselecting one. Decided that + extended select in this case is just _evil_. I can't decide which + memo to show after deselections, and there's several other problems + as well related to slotUpdateButtons(). Reverted the multiple-select. +* options.h [BRANCH] Added the TODO_I18N macro to BRANCH as well, + where it's more important. +* kpilotlink.cc [BRANCH] Reordered ReadSysInfo and ReadUserInfo to + copy JPilot's setup, maybe that will help with password issues. +* kpilot.cc [BRANCH] Cleaned up deprecated headers. +* conduitConfigDialog.cc [BRANCH] Preparing to repair the clumsy + conduit selection and activation + + +KPilot Developer's notes for January 30th, 2003 +=============================================== + +* Ugh. Looked at jpilot source. Now I remember why doing C often + seemed a little unproductive. But it does give some very useful + information: We need a combo box to choose the Pilot's encoding. + We can use the list from JPilot. Next, we need to make _all_ the + QString::fromLatin1() and QString::latin1() -- also all the + implicit ones -- that refer to pilot records use the right codec. + This will require some possibly major work on the database classes. +* The logging is still lousy for many conduits. I ran the + notes and address conduits, and the log was less than enlightening. +* We need to sync _all_ databases, not just the conduited ones. +* Encoding and decoding non-latin1 Pilots is a priority. + +2003-2-1 Adriaan de Groot +* memoWidget.{h,cc} [BRANCH] Applied patch from David Mott for the GJJ + "Lose QMLE". Good job! ... Ugh, and it breaks on KDE 3.0. Hacked. +* pilotDatabase.h [BRANCH] Missing #include fixed. How this ever compiled + is a mystery to me. +* pilotRecord.{h,cc} [BRANCH] Inlined trivial functions. +* pilotRecord.{h,cc} pilotAppCategory.h [BRANCH] Start of codec support. +* Put together some scripts to do more automated building and testing + in KDE 3.1 and 3.0 environments. This makes tarball delivery a _lot_ + easier. + + +2003-1-31 Adriaan de Groot +* Let's do the time-warp again! +* syncAction.{h,cc} [HEAD] Added a delayDone() function for use from + exec() to avoid possible stack growth as follows: + conduitExec() + exec() + syncDone() + SyncStack::conduitDone() + delete syncAction // The one whose exec() we're still in! + conduitExec() // Another conduit! + ... + return true; + I'm not sure I trust all the pointers to still be OK when this happens. + Using delayDone() makes sure that exec() and conduitExec() return + first and we get back to the main event loop. +* syncStack.{h,cc} [HEAD] Using a stack instead of a queue has some + comp-sci chique, but little practical value. Break up the API + to make it more easy to use elsewhere and practical to insert + extra items (like Kroupware) into the sync order. + +2003-1-30 Adriaan de Groot +* Removing local8bit() calls in the code. They're not wanted. +* Marked conduitSetup.{h,cc} as deprecated and removed from build. +* Looked into bug #52138 again, and I just can't see it. My Pilot + syncs fine with KAddressbook and KNotes, both ways, with names + and memos with any latin1 character. [Update: aha! The bug is + about Japanese language Sony Clie's. So it turns out there are + Pilots that don't use latin1 at all. I'll take a look at how + jpilot deals with them.] +* I'd like to change the About box tag-line for KPilot to: + KPilot - HotSync software for KDE + for a variety of consistency reasons. This can only happen + in HEAD, though. +* Reversed some confusing accidental commits by me in the + debugging department for the daemon. + + +2003-1-26 Adriaan de Groot +* Ugh. Still sick with the flu. Hacking just a little, though. + The Kroupware stuff in HEAD needs to be moved. Ugh, it's ugly. + It needs to become a conduit of its own, but it's hard to tell + just what it's doing. + +2003-1-24 Adriaan de Groot +* Received a patch from David Mott that removes lots of the Log: + tags from the KPilot source (mostly in kpilot/). Finished the + job too, committed. + +2003-1-20 Adriaan de Groot +* For the next little while, I'll be working in _BRANCH fixing + bugs as best I can. These will end up in KDE 3.1.x releases. + Reinhold will be working in HEAD, adding neat features. + BRANCH will be merged to HEAD regularly so that no bug-fixes + are lost in HEAD. +* Reduced debugging output clutter in PilotAddress by changing + to FUNCTIONSETUPL(). Assigned Levels are: 4=PilotAddress. + + +2003-1-18 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Removed several Log: ... tags from the conduits I maintain +* started implementing the custom fields sync of the addressbook conduit. + I still have problems converting a string to a QDate using a custom format +* Cleanup of includes in my conduits. +* Some more work on the DOCConduit. There are still several open issues, but + the basic functionality works just fine! + + +KPilot Developer's notes for January 17th, 2003 +=============================================== + +2003-1-15 Adriaan de Groot +* Back to BSD. Committed lots of header file changes. Did some fixing + for strlcpy() in 3_0_BRANCH for folks with KDE < 3.0.5a. + +2003-1-11 Adriaan de Groot +* Weirdly, I can list the databases on the pilot just fine with kpilotTest, + but at the end of the sync the pilot complains about the password. +* Similarly, using the daemon I can back up the pilot just fine (pilot-link + 0.11.3, all this) and at the end the pilot complains. The data is backed + up just fine, though. +* Wow, USB connections are _fast_. +* Weirdness comes in threes: after a while the debug output stops printing. + Even when it's sent to cerr directly. Hmm .. has something to do with + printing NULL QStrings. +* [hotSync.cc] Every "Backing up:" message was logged twice. +* [logWidget.cc] Added more version information. Discovered that + QTextView is obsolete. Fixed log tailing problem. #ifdeffed it to + Qt 3.1 and later. + +2003-1-10 Adriaan de Groot +* [kpilot/interactivesync.cc] Some strlcpy problems when compiling HEAD + (or BRANCH) KPilot on a KDE 3.0 system. Since we don't maintain branches, + backwards compatibility in HEAD is essential. Added #if KDE_VERSION < 310. +* [lib/kpilotlink.cc] Might have found the source of the KPilot-hangs-with-USB + problems. There's a note in the QSocketNotifier docs saying not to disable + read-notifiers. I did anyway, and it never caused problems before. + Added some workaround crud. +* I'm currently building kdelibs and base and pim on a Linux box, something + I haven't done in over a year. This will allow me access to a USB stack + that can actually handle the m500, so I can do some more testing. + Primary platform remains FreeBSD, though, for all-the-other-KDE-problems- + on-nonlinux. +* Made a round of removing <iostream.h>, since it's already in options.h. + Needed a "using namespace std;" in options to get stuff to work. + +2003-1-9 Adriaan de Groot +* Made new tarballs of the build system (for 3.0 and 3.1) and + the sources. +* Decision: I'm going to do bugfixes in _BRANCH. Reinhold can do + bugfixes and new conduits in HEAD, and I'll merge from BRANCH to + HEAD fairly regularly. I think that's the best balance between + getting stuff out the door and sticking to the KDE release schedule. +* Decision: Remove all the Log: tags from the source files. + The Id: tags stay in, for debugging output. + +2003-1-1 Adriaan de Groot +* Ho ho ho. Happy new year. + +KPilot Developer's notes for December 30th, 2002 +================================================ + +2002-12-30 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Some more work on the docconduit. I'm currently restructuring again, + so right now it doesn't work at all, but should be finished really + soon now. +* Add a method PilotDatabase::deleteDatabase() to delete the database. +* Add a warning to the vcal conduit's setup dialog to clear any + misconception about conflict resolution. Also changed "Pilot" to + "handheld" at several places. + +2002-12-15 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Added a parameter "bool useDefaultPath=false" to + PilotLocalDatabase::PilotLocalDatabase to prevent resetting + the dbPathName to the default path (kpilot/DBBackup/UserName) + +2002-12-13 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Initial import of the docconduit, which syncs text files on + the desktop with PalmDOC databases (kind of e-book format for + the palm) on the handheld for use with AportisDoc, TealReader, + QED, etc. +* VCalConduit: yearly recurrence now works correctly (had wrong + yearly recurrence type rYearlyDay instead of rYearlyMonth) +* Addressbook conduit: _equal also compares the categories to + check if an item was changed +* Added the new methods createDatabase(..) and deleteRecord(..) + to the PilotDatabase classes. createDatabase creates a new + database with given type and creator, and deleteRecord deletes + either a single record or all records in the whole database +* PilotDatabse::readNextModifiedRec has a new optional argument + of type int* which receives the index of the returned record. +* PilotDatabase::findDatabase has optional arguments + int index=0, long type=0, long creator=0 + + + +KPilot Developer's notes for november 10th, 2002 +================================================ + +2002-11-10 Adriaan de Groot +* Is kate acting up? I would have sworn I did some ChangeLog + editing last night. Anyway: +* Expanded the DCOP interface so the daemon can signal KPilot + when the HotSync is done. This causes postHotSync things to + be called and unfreezes the FileInstaller. +* Adjusted the progress bar during installing files. +* Daemon->Quit now still waits til lthe end of the sync. +* Display some form of progress during a restore. Reduce verbosity a little. + +2002-11-08 Adriaan de Groot +* Clear the file installer list after a HotSync. Disable dropping files + on the installer during a Sync. +* When installing files, the "done" message was printed at the + beginning of the last file to be installed. Fixed. + +2002-11-07 Adriaan de Groot +* only call slotTextChanged() in the MemoWidget + when switching memos, and only if the memo is changed. + This saves rewriting the database every time you hit a + key in the memo edit box. + +2002-11-06 Adriaan de Groot +* Fix the KNotes conduit's name. + +2002-11-05 Adriaan de Groot +* Patched up the website again a bit. +* Mucking about in libkcal to make it useful for KPilot. +* Lots of includes changed in the vcalconduit to reflect that. + +2002-11-02 Adriaan de Groot +* Regarding the "Hidden config feature", it's in the group for the + popmail conduit, called "outboxFolder". Set it to the i18n'ed name + of KMail's outbox. Damn KMail's DCOP interface / config. This + should make it possible to send mail with KMail again. +* Finally got a separate build tree of KPilot working. Can distribute + sources again, now, assuming SLAC can suffer the bandwidth penalty. +* Most of libkcal's header files aren't installed. Why? Is it really intended + to be totally internal to the kdepim module in KDE's CVS? + +2002-10-31 Adriaan de Groot +* Happy Hallowe'en, eh. + +2002-10-27 Adriaan de Groot +* Don't you hate code / feature freezes? It always stops KPilot development + in it's tracks, if only because fixing the bug related to KMail's outbox + requires a new string. Bitch bitch, moan moan. +* Added new TODO_I18N macro to flag I18N todos. The popmail + conduit is a big candidate for fixups. +* Thought of a new starter project: moving the popmail conduit config + dialog to Qt Designer. Another one would be to fixup the capitalization + of popmail in that conduit. +* Added extra undocumented configuration option to the popmail + conduit in an effort to save KMail sending capability. + + +KPilot Developer's notes for september 19th, 2002 +================================================= + + +2002-09-13 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Finally, the addressbook conduit is in a shape where I can release + it with beta 2. There are still some issues (e.g. duplication as + conflict resolution is messed up on the next sync. Also, entries + with newlines in an address field are always determined as changed, + so the fast sync is not so fast with them.), but they can be targeted + later on. + +2002-09-10 Adriaan de Groot +* Problems related to immediate "Exiting on Cancel" traced back to + having two pilot-link versions installed; compile against one + and link against the other. + +2002-09-02 Adriaan de Groot +* Added finer-grained pilot-link version checking in configure.in.in. + Removed all support for ancient pilot-link versions. + +2002-08-30 Adriaan de Groot +* Much mucking about with dlp_ functions in an attempt to discover why + syncing wasn't discovering _any_ of my databases. Also handling + dlp_ReadUserInfo failures, indicating possible password use. Weird. + +2002-08-28 Adriaan de Groot +* Mess around a bit with Chris' crashes and the exiting-on-cancel one. +* PilotDaemon not passing on correct signals and slots to KPilot. + This should finally enable some progress-meter changing. +* Ditched the check of dlp_OpenConduit when the device is opened + initially, it's returning -18 after the user name is read correctly. + The USB support under FBSD is still very patchy, though, since + it thinks I have just one database. + +2002-08-24 Adriaan de Groot +* Add a "Fail Now" mode to the NULL conduit to help debugging. + +2002-08-24 Adriaan de Groot +* (syncAction.cc) Whoops, forgot to implement the timeout feature + in interactive questionYesNo. +* One more go through all the sources removing warnings. + +2002-08-23 Adriaan de Groot +* (addressWidget.cc) Added more debugging output in response to bug #45977. + Gosh, it's even a FreeBSD user. This basically means that the database + can't be opened, and I have no idea why. +* (kpilotlink.cc) Added more debugging output in KPilotLink::acceptDevice() + to deal with problems from Chris Cowell and Beat Straehl. +* (kpilotlink.cc) (Perhaps) check pilot-link version more gracefully. +* (pilotUser.h) bzero() new KPilotUser data structures, just in case. +* (interactiveSync.cc) Fix compile warnings. +* (knotes-action.cc) Fix bug that causes the KNotes conduit to hang + when KNotes isn't running. +* (everything dependent on SyncAction) Changed the type of exec() to virtual + bool, and removed it from the slots. Added a new slot execConduit() which + calls exec(). This makes you return a value from exec(), and false is intended + to indicate "processing never started due to errors" and will cause execConduit() + to generate a generic error message and emit the syncDone(this) signal, which + is otherwise easily forgotten when just doing return; + + +KPilot Developer's notes for august 15th, 2002 +============================================== + +2002-08-15 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Implemented categories in the todo conduit +* Fixed the bug which prevented error messages from + being included in the hotsync log (the signals from + fDeviceLink were not connected!) +* Included the malconduit in the CVS tree (but disabled + its compilation for now), wrote several + emails asking for permission to either relicense libmal + to use MPL 1.1, or to include special permission into + KPilot's COPYING to permit linking to libmal. + + +KPilot Developer's notes for july 31th, 2002 +=========================================== + +2002-07-31 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Added a time conduit which syncs the time from the pc to the palm +* Also wrote an AvantGo conduit, but didn't add it to the cvs tree yet + because it uses libmal, which is MPL (and thus GPL-incompatible). + We have yet to figure out a way to make them compatible... + +KPilot Developer's notes for july 17th, 2002 +=========================================== + +2002-07-17 Reinhold Kainhofer +* A first almost-working version of the address conduit. Chances are, + some data will be lost, but most parts work. "Duplicate entries" + conflict resolution setting does not yet work. + + +KPilot Developer's notes for july 4th, 2002 +=========================================== + +2002-07-04 Reinhold Kainhofer +* Added a function KPilotDeviceLink::tickle() which prevents a timeout + on the palm side if it is called with a timer (e.g. when a dialog is open) +* Some more work on the addressbook conduit, which seems to be trickier + than I had thought initially. + + +KPilot Developer's notes for june 24th, 2002 +============================================ + +Moving on past 3.0.2 and trying to sort things out. + +2002-06-24 Adriaan de Groot +* The config file the daemon allocates is read-only. This is inconvenient + when conduits want to save data in the config file. Backed that out, + am now worried about what happens when you leave the KPilot UI running + during a sync, since both applications have a RW copy of the config file. + +2002-06-24 Reinhold Kainhofer + Still fighting with the addressbook conduit. The Palm -> PC way already + seems to work. Haven't committed anything yet to prevent breaking + compilation of the kdepim module with a conduit which won't work yet anyway. + + +KPilot Developer's notes for june 16th, 2002 +============================================ + +2002-06-16 Reinhold Kainhofer +* backported many fixes in the vcal conduits to the BRANCH for the 3.0.2 + release. +* For the addressbook conduit I implemented a method + QValueList<recordid_t> PilotDatabase::idList() + which returns a list of all record ids in the database +* KPilotDeviceLink::openDatabases now fetches the database from the palm + if no backup copy exists on the PC. + +KPilot Developer's notes for june 9th, 2002 +=========================================== + +Not sure just what Reinhold has been up to recently, but +I know I've been sitting in the sun and relaxing. Mostly. + +H==HEAD, B==Branch in the bracketed notes after the patch description. + +2002-06-10 Adriaan de Groot +* Using version 4.3.3 in BRANCH for the 3.0.2 release, and + 4.3.4 in HEAD for later. + +2002-06-08 Adriaan de Groot +* Conduits, conduits, conduits and documentation, documentation, documentation. + That's what we need. Sigh. + +2002-06-07 Adriaan de Groot +* Patched VCalConduitBase::cleanup() to be careful about + calling functions on objects that may not be allocated. [H,B] +* Patched VCalConduitBase to use variables from ConduitBase. [H] +* Added tooltip for daemon. Gosh, that's ugly. Should put a + nicer message in there. [H] + +KPilot Developer's notes for may 25th 2002 +========================================== + +2002-05-23 Adriaan de Groot +* KNotes syncing now really seems to work both ways. +* Time to deal with a lot of little administrative files. +* Fixed tooltips in config dialog. +* KPilotTest now resets after a sync as well. +* Added hooks in LogWidget to allow extra buttons. + +2002-05-21 Adriaan de Groot +* Renamed PilotDatabase::cleanUpDatabase() to cleanup(), this + affected the Serial and Local reimplementations and also the + abbrowser conduit, which is the only conduit to do the right + thing and cleanup the database after a sync. +* Added missing close and delete on the databases for plugins. + +2002-05-19 Adriaan de Groot +* Time to take a good hard look at the conduits individually. + We'll start with the notes conduit, since it only does one- + way syncing. I suspect this will chime in some more testing + instrumentation in the base classes for conduits, too. +* Changed lots of bitconstants to hex, for clarity. +* Added a FlagLocal to plugin.h with the intent that you can + then try to sync two _local_ databases -- so you don't even + need a Pilot for testing. +* The KNotes conduit now tries to do something sensible with + getting notes back to the Pilot, but fails. + +KPilot Developer's notes for may 18th 2002 +========================================== + +2002-05-18 Adriaan de Groot +* Bunch of compile fixes. What happened? + +2002-05-15 Adriaan de Groot +* Updated the version number. +* Removed the device type combobox, since it's not needed. +* Updated the what's this text for the speed combobox. +* Removed the "alpha" warning from the log widget. + + +KPilot Developer's notes for april 28st 2002 +============================================ + +Hopefully we'll have merged the HEAD version of the vcal conduit -- +by Reinhold K. -- with branch so that it actually works. + + + +KPilot Developer's notes for april 21st 2002 +============================================ + +A week when I should have been working on KPilot, and I've been +working on the build system instead. Reinhold K. has hinted that +he's making tremendous progress on the vcal conduit, which is a good thing. + +2002-04-20 Adriaan de Groot +* Closed a few bugs that I could verify are resolved. Other conduit- + related bugs remain open even if I suspect they're done, since I + haven't actually physically tested them. + +2002-04-16 Adriaan de Groot +* Finally committed all of David B's patches and things. [HEAD] +* More modification of configure.in.in and the Makefile.am's to + make pilot-link more easily found (I hope). [BRANCH] + +2002-04-15 Adriaan de Groot +* Cosmetic fix: center splash image under KDE3 as well. +* Fixed misleading debug statement when KPilot starts the daemon. + +KPilot Developer's notes for mid-april 2002 +=========================================== + +2002-04-13 Adriaan de Groot +* Received a patch from Carlo Perassi for handling cases where there + is no user name set in the Pilot. +* Worked on configure changes to detect pilot-link automatically and + properly. [BRANCH] + +2002-04-09 Adriaan de Groot +* Did some minor debugging in setting flags for the conduits. + +2002-04-07 Adriaan de Groot +* There are now two real branches of development for KPilot. KDE_3_0_BRANCH + gets bugfixes to the existing code, while HEAD gets new features. I imagine + I'll merge BRANCH back to HEAD sometime when I feel that the main bugs + are out (like next week, I hope). I'll be showing where patches go until + we merge again. +* Added a message (no i18n) showing KPilot and pilot-link versions. +* Still need a workaround for dlp_addSyncLogEntry() for pilot-link 0.10.1 + [BRANCH - should go in HEAD as well] +* Fixed Makefile.am bug in popmailconduit. [BRANCH] +- --test mode wasn't working with kpilotTest (when running conduits) [BRANCH] + +2002-04-06 Adriaan de Groot +* Applied patch to avoid crash with undefined symbol. I forget who sent + it in, though. Thanks to you, anonymous! Wrote a script to catch this + kind of situation in the future. + + + +KPilot Developer's notes for sometime in march 2002 +=================================================== + +2002-03-09 Adriaan de Groot +* Sanitized syncStack so that nextAction isn't so ambiguous. +* Fixed missing default (--list) in kpilotTest. +* Some neatness fixes in pilotDaemon.cc and pilotDaemonDCOP.h. +* Test syncs shouldn't run conduits or install files. Fixed in pilotDaemon. +* The daemon leaked 2 FD's on every sync, which is bad. Added some extra + ::close() calls, which fixes this (under p-l 0.9.5 and 0.10.1). +* Mucked about with USB devices some more, but it looks like the m500 + is going to be unusable under FBSD for some time. This isn't bad, since + I can then concentrate on getting things working with the serial PalmV. +* It might be a good idea to start using the daemon to do just device tests + instead of kpilotTest -- though it doens't make a big difference. + +2002-03-08 Adriaan de Groot +* Fiddled around w/ getting a broadband connection, for whatever + reason. I guess effortless connectivity is the goal. Fiddled with + my new m500 USB and discovered that pilot-link 0.10.1pre works + perfectly with it under Linux (well, pilot-xfer -l works). Under + FreeBSD, though, it seems that there's nothing available for this + kind of device. Hmph. So now I need to spend some time to figure + out how to get KDE up and running on my somewhat deprecated Linux + install. Serve the source by NFS? + +2002-03-07 Adriaan de Groot +* Finally picked up where I left off, adding yet another message to + the startup log window (again, I think this is temporary). The versions + of relevant items now appear there. +* Messed around with crashes while deleting CleanupActions. + +2002-03-06 David Bishop +* Lots of work on exporting memos in XML format. It looks like the + whole memo viewer widget is going to be reworked, slightly. +* Finished off the kdDebug() repairs someone else started. + +KPilot Developer's notes for february 11th 2002 +=============================================== + +2002-02-06 Adriaan de Groot +* kpilot/listItems.cc lib/pilotRecord.cc + - Removed some FUNCTIONSETUPs, since they were really clogging debugging + output and not adding anything interesting. Changes some other + debug output as well. +* kpilot/addressWidget.cc + - I *think* I squashed a memory leak, caused by createTitle which + was still returning char * instead of QString. Moved to QString anyway. + +2002-02-03 Adriaan de Groot +* kpilot/Icons/kpilot-hotsync.png + - Whipped up a new icon for HotSyncing. This makes all the icons in + the Janus view the same size. + +KPilot Developer's notes for february 2nd 2002 +============================================== + +2002-01-26 Adriaan de Groot +* Wherever + - Invented an icon for the address viewer. + - Doubleclick on conduit in active column configures it. + - Fixed some compile problems under KDE3. + - Messed around with the vcal conduit. + - Configuring conduits resets the daemon. + - You can't reset the daemon during a sync; replaced fQuitAfterSync. + +I'm starting to think the logWidget belongs with the *daemon* +(and should be showable from the daemon's context menu), not +from KPilot (which should be just a viewer). Opinions? + +2002-01-27 Adriaan de Groot +* Wherever + - Got rid of the remaining dlp_ functions in code outside + of kpilotlink.cc and pilotSerialDatabase.cc. This leaves the pi_ stuff. + +Development of KPilot is now done on a 80x25 serial terminal running at +38400 baud. I have no idea what kind of effect this will have, but it means +I can sit on the couch and do devel work :) + +2002-02-02 Adriaan de Groot +* lib/kpilotlink.{h,cc} + - Continue moving pilot-link related things (pi_*) into the KPilotLink + class, so that Dag might have an easier time of it. +* lib/options.cc + - Removed some messy #ifdef DEBUG stuff, with debugging enabled + call tracing is now default on. +* kpilot/logWidget.cc + - Added some text stating that KPilot is really alpha. No-one will read + this, of course, and it will only piss off the translators. + +KPilot Developer's notes for january 25th 2002 +============================================== + +Found my Pilot again, made tea, thought about Dag's and Neil's comments +on ColdSync (I still believe that ColdSync has the drawback that it's not +meant to be a library you can build on, it resembles the pilot-xfer tools +much more than anything else). Grepped for dlp_ in the sources. They seem +fairly isolated, which is good -- maybe we *can* move to some other Pilot +access method. + +Looked at some old sources. *uuuuugly*. PilotRecord, PilotAppCategory, +PilotTodoEntry, etc. could use a good dose of sanity. + +2002-01-21 Adriaan de Groot +* conduits/vcalconduit/* + - Some serious rewriting going on. +* kpilot/hotSync.cc + - Removed old KPilotLink code + - Moved calls from dlp_OpenConduit to KPilotDeviceLink::openConduit() +* lib/syncAction.h lib/kpilotlink.{h,cc} + - Added openConduit to abstract the underlying lib interface more. +* kpilot/logWidget.cc + - suppress empty log lines. +* lib/pilotLocalDatabase.{h,cc} + - Added a hook for UserCheck to set the default search path for + databases opened by name only. + +It's time to say hi, welcome, and thanks to a couple of new people on +the KPilot / kde-pim team. There's Chris Abiad, who has already made his +presence felt on the mailing list. Thanks for fielding questions for +me, Chris, and stalling on the question of when the next release is. +Chris will also be maintaining the website. Next up is Stephanie Bryant, +a writer of technical documentation. She'll be helping me document the +various files in kpilot/lib so that they actually form an understandable +and usable API for third-party conduit-writers. Philipp Hullmann, you +should be overjoyed to hear this :) Once she's practiced on KPilot, Steph +will be leaving us for kdelibs, where weird and wonderful things await ... + +2002-01-25 Adriaan de Groot +* *.ui + - Danimo was wondering why we use ToolTips everywhere instead of WhatsThis. + My answer was "because we knew about QToolTip before QWhatsThis." Anyway, + switching over to the correct form of on-line help is a simple search- + and-replace thing. So that has happened. David, can you keep that in + mind as well? +* kpilot/pilotDaemon.{h,cc} kpilot/Icons/ + - Minor changes to get the daemon's icons to display properly. + - Woo.. the busysync icon is *ugly*. Partly fixed, and I hope Kristof + can do something about it sometime. Really we need the icon in 4 rotated + states (well, maybe 2) to indicate activity during the sync. + - Of course the daemon was exiting after each sync .. I forgot to initialize + fQuitAfterSync (which isn't used, BTW, except if you use DCOP to call + quitNow()) to false. +* kpilot/kpilot.cc + - Forgot to inform daemon of changing settings. +* kpilot/syncStack.cc + - All conduits now put *something* in the Sync log. + + +KPilot Developer's notes for january 20th 2002 +============================================== + +It's been a slightly sleepy time. Some rocky backporting has occurred, +though, as KDE3-isms sneak into the codebase and break my compiles at +home. At work, though, I've switched to KDE3 and it's really nice. +Now if only I could release a version of KPilot that works before KDE3 +comes out and makes all this compatibility effort moot ... + +2002-01-15 Adriaan de Groot +* conduits/vcalconduit/* + - Class Recurrence is the KDE3 name of class KORecurrence. Where the + libkcal API has changed, added #ifdefs to use the right one, and + #define Recurrence KORecurrence when compiling under KDE2. +2002-01-16 David Bishop +* *.ui + - Added <qt>'s to all tooltips, neatness fixes. +2002-01-16 Adriaan de Groot +* lib/options.{h,cc} + - Added support for both ostream and kdbgstream << QSize to avoid + plugin crashes when the plugin is compiled with different DEBUG_CERR + settings from libkpilot. +2002-01-19 Adriaan de Groot +* Documentation + - Added a warning "Docs out of date" to the docs, adapted all the top-level + README &c. files to reflect the current situation. +2002-01-20 Adriaan de Groot +* lib/pilotLocalDatabase.{h,cc} + - Added new constructor that doesn't take a path, but just uses the + application-instance database directory. +* lib/plugin.{h,cc} + - Added isRunning() to PluginUtility, since several conduits need to + know if the application they are syncing is already running or not. +* conduits/knotes/knotes-action.{h,cc} + - Replaced knotesRunning by call to isRunning(); +* conduits/vcalconduit/* + - Started a real re-write of the vcal conduit (what??!) +* TODO + - Updated the TODO list with some concrete stuff. + +KPilot Developer's notes for december 31st 2001 +=============================================== + +Time to go out with a bang, eh. + +Fixing the VCal conduits so they actually do a sync was a fair bit of +work, partly because it was so weirdly crufty, partly because of the +peculiar separation of the todo from the vcal conduit. + + +2001-12-28 Adriaan de Groot +* conduits/vcalconduit/vcalBase.{h,cc} +* conduits/vcalconduit/vcal-conduit.{h,cc} +* conduits/vcalconduit/todo-conduit.{h,cc} + - Well, it compiles now. +* lib/plugin.{h,cc} + - Added isBackup() so that conduits can now also do their own + backups. Note that conduits aren't called (yet) during a backup + action. +* conduits/popmail/* + - Why the heck does this (still) use FILE *? + - It compiles and there is a sync action. + +Next up is checking out kpilotTest and making sure that it does sensible +things, like closing the device handle, allowing multiple syncs, and +running file install correctly. After that, testing testing testing. + +2001-12-28 Adriaan de Groot +* kpilot/main-test.cc + - Added one-letter cmd-line-options, sanity checking. + - Switched to SyncStack integrated syncing (see below). +* kpilot/main-config.cc + - Removed unused new-style option. +* kpilot/syncStack.{h,cc} + - New files encapsulating sync sequence knowledge. + +2001-12-29 Adriaan de Groot +* kpilot/pilotDaemon.{h,cc} + - Switched to SyncStack. +* lib/kpilotlink.cc + - Work around an off-by-one bug in pilot-link versions < 0.9.6. +* kpilot/interactiveSync.cc + - Added support for don't ask again in the check-user questions. + This changes the API of questionYesNo, but only inserts a + (defaulted) parameter, so "regular" calls of this should be + unaffected. + +The GUI isn't updated at all (?) during a backup action. Hmph. Well, only +between databases, but that's not much. The backup appears to work, which +is a good thing. Gonna hafta try the restore action soon ;) + +2001-12-29 Adriaan de Groot +* conduits/null/null-*.{h,cc} + - Fixed some configuration load / restore / use bugs. + Moved configuration keys to the factory. +* kpilot/syncStack.{h,cc} + - The conduit proxy action also needs to proxy the messages from the conduit. + I never knew connect(p,SIGNAL(),q,SIGNAL()) worked! Wow. +* kpilot/logWidget.{h,cc} + - Added missing slot for logProgress. + +Aieee! I'm becoming a kate user, vi is suffering from abandonment on my +devel box. This is troubling -- using the software you write. Heck, next +thing you know, I'll be using KPilot to sync my Pilot. Ewwwww. + + +2001-12-29 Adriaan de Groot +* kpilot/conduitConfigDialog.{h,cc} + - Removed old Exec= style conduits entirely. They're warned for now. +* conduits/abbrowserconduit/* + - See conduit run. See DrKonqui. Whee! Oh, and this *one* conduit has + a name of the form bla_conduit, while all others are bla-conduit. Yay. + See pointer get used before initialization. Cool! It crashes elsewhere. + Isn't delayed loading great? __rs__FR11QDataStreamRt5QDict1Z12ContactEntry + And ... that was fucking amazing. Greg, you da man. + + OK, so that one also runs to completion, at least the first time. It looks + like FirstTime isn't being turned off like it should, so I'll do that by + hand. OK, changes get copied from the Pilot to KAddressbook ok, but the + conduit seems to read *all* records from the Pilot, not just the modified + ones. That's bad for the batteries. Oh well, I'm just so happy it works + that I'll move on to the next conduit and deal with bugs tomorrow. +* conduits/expense/* + - Seems to work fine. +* conduits/knotes/* + - Undefined symbols ... man, I (semi) hate libtool libraries. + See, I just left some essential code *out* here, and thus libtool + thinks it'll be resolved later. Ha! + + OK, it at least copies new KNotes to the Pilot. That's enough for now. +* conduits/popmail/* + - Um, does this actually *do* anything? OK, config fixes, dcop fixes ... + and voila, a message shows up in the outbox of KMail. So let's call + sending via KMail a success and have a cup of tea. +* conduits/vcalconduit/* + - Now things get hairy / exciting. Let's start with the ToDo conduit: + + kpilotTest: WARNING: [void ConduitProxy::exec()] : Can't create SyncAction. + + Very wise. Of course, the code to create a conduit is not in the + factory. Brilliant! Nothing a little cut-n-paste can't cure, and + configure, and .. DrKonqui. Did some indenting, my brain hurts from + trying to (a) understand this (b) fix all the memory leaks. Rewrite? + - VCalConduit: it doesn't crash, but it's probably going to read all + the things from my Pilot and install them in KOrganizer with a date + of 0000/00/00 (from looking at the debug messages as they fly by). + And .. whump, KOrganizer now can't read the .ics file anymore. + +*Every* sync, KPilot tells me that the name in the pilot is different +from the name in KPilot. Gotta fix that. + +2001-12-30 Aaron J Seigo +* kpilot/logWidget.cc +* kpilot/kpilot.cc + - Paint the KPilot version number in the splash screen. + +2001-12-30 Adriaan de Groot +* conduits/vcalconduit/vcal-conduit.cc +* conduits/vcalconduit/vcalBase.cc + - Removed some __FUNCTION__ things, added #ifdef DEBUG to debug code. + In some other files, too. + - The code in vcalBase.cc is in heavy need of an invocation of indent. + It's horrible and ugly in other ways, too, but this is a start. + +2001-12-31 Adriaan de Groot + +Some general polishing of ToolTips &c. + +* kpilot/* + - Added Kristof's icon for the file installer. It's still a preliminary + version, though. + - TODO: after reconfiguring the username, re-initialize all components + in kpilot, to get the new databases. + - Switched the ToolTips in the address viewer to use <qt> + - TODO: ditch the toolbar; perhaps add the select-kind-of-sync + functionality to the logWidget. + +KPilot Developer's notes for december 27th 2001 +=============================================== + +So I never posted the previous notes. And besides Maarten's little comment +on the odd jobs, no response either --- but then again, it was Xmas and +maybe people had more important things to do. I know I had enough dinners +that I can fast & hack for the rest of the week. + +Things fixed now: + +* conduits/vcalconduit/ + - All the configuration dialogs now look ok, after a little fiddling + about with the .ui files, and the configuration is saved as well. + A sync is out of the question right now. + +Yet another odd job: someone (David?) needs to check all the ToolTips +in the .ui files for the conduits with Qt *2*'s designer. And we need +to check that all the configurations are in fact saved properly. Testers? + +KPilot Developer's notes for december 23rd 2001 +=============================================== + +HoHoHo. Let's look back in the ChangeLog to see where we were one year ago. +Struggling with the vcal conduit (it's *still* wonky); missing the 2.1 +release deadine (was it that long ago?); cleaning up code. + +In these complex modern final days, (to quote Pogo), what's up? + +2001-12-18 Adriaan de Groot +* conduits/expense/* +* conduits/null/* + - These two conduits now have a full configure dialog that's sized + correctly (afaict without messing around with font settings), that + saves the settings, and have a working sync action. Whee! + +2001-12-20 Adriaan de Groot +* conduits/abbrowser/* + - This conduit now has a working config dialog and does a sync, although + I haven't really looked at the sync code itself to check for bugs. +* conduits/knotes/* + - Ditto; it configures and syncs, although the sync is rather sparse. + I discovered that const char * const is a useful type, though. It saves + an accessor function for KConfig entry keys. + +The bad conduits: + +* conduits/popmail/* + - Still no .ui file and not many tooltips, but you *can* configure + this conduit. No sync though. +* conduits/todoconduit/ + - This one is seriously deprecated and I'll try to remove it soon. +* conduits/vcalconduit/* + - It's got a .ui file which is used badly and which is missing layouts. + Not a hint of saving configurations though. + +OPEN JOBS: + +Are you bored? Is your love life lackluster? Do you want to MAKE MONEY FAST? +Do you want to FIND OUT WHAT MICROSOFT DOESNT WANT YOU to KNOW? ... um ... +back to reality: If you'd like to help out with KPilot but don't really know +where to start, and would like to get a little acquainted with the code, +the coding style, and some of the conventions used in KPilot, read on! +If you have grep and a text editor, read on! + +The code, and particularly the debugging code, has gone though a number +of phases. For a while, there was that --debug 1023 stuff. I've decided +that that's actually kinda cumbersome for a GUI program, and debugging +has switched back to an all-or-nothing kinda thing. So some things need +to be changed all over the source code, and that's just the kind of +exploratory job for someone with grep and vi. In particular: + +* kdDebug() everywhere needs to change into DEBUGCONDUIT, DEBUGKPILOT, + or one of the other DEBUG* macros defined in kpilot/lib/options.h. + This will send the debugging output to the sensible debug area. + Which one you choose depends on where the file lives -- choose wisely. + +* DEBUG* calls everywhere need to be surrounded by #ifdef DEBUG #endif. + This is because some compilers don't optimize away unused strings, + leading to big bulky (well, sorta) executables. Adding the #ifdefs + makes sure that there's nothing at all left over from the debugging code + when debugging is turned off. + +* __FUNCTION__ needs to be replaced by k_funcinfo. The popmail conduit is + bad for that one, at the very least. + +* if (debug_level) and its cousin if (debug_level & SOMETHING) need to be + removed, along with the set of brackets they introduce. The debugging + statement (usually just a kdDebug() << whatever << endl;) needs to be + out-dented one tabstop, to line it up properly. + +These are, in one sense, rotten little jobs. But they'll take you to all +the corners of the KPilot code, show you some ugly (and some not-so-ugly) +code, and give you a feel for "the lay of the land." After that, fixing +all the remaining off-by-one bugs in the vcal conduit should be a breeze. + +KPilot Developer's notes for december 16th 2001 +=============================================== + +Worked on some conduits for danimo, who has UI updates. So more conduits +compile now, but I haven't tested them. However, they do get installed +if you do make install, and they may eat your Pilot, you Buick, or New York +when run. USE EXTREME CAUTION. + +I think the NULL conduit is safe, though :) + +Abbrowser Conduit: it compiles, and it has but a setup dialog and a +sync part which has not been tested at all. + +* Makefile.am + - Fixed up includes, removed old PISOCK_INCLUDE. +* abbrowser-conduit.cc + - Changed kdDebug() to DEBUGCONDUIT, applied indent style, #ifdef DEBUGs + - Replaced static QString objects by const char * (KConfig keys) + - Removed old files + - Assume FirstTime is always *true*, this is at least partly broken, + but it makes the conduit compile at least. + +The other conduits all compile and have config dialogs but don't do anything. + +And in other news, little bugfixes and other neat stuff sometimes shows up +in my mailbox. Martin Junius is a long-time contributor, and he's volunteered +(again) to make new KPilot rpms for RH 7.2 once the system is stable again. + +* kpilot/addressWidget.cc + setupWidget() - Martin Junius found a display bug and sent a patch. +* conduits/vcalconduit/vcal-conduit.cc + setRepetition() - Philipp Hullmann noticed that the Pilot's week starts + on day 0 = sunday, and in KDE day 0 = monday. + +KPilot Developer's notes for december 2nd 2001 +=============================================== + +More work on the expense conduit. In conduits/expense: + +* setupDialog.h + - Added an #include <qwidget.h> to make header self-contained. +* setupDialog.cc + - Disabled MySQL button, since there's no code to make it work. + - Disabled "logRotate" stuff, since I can't remember what was + wanted there and there's no code for it. +* expense.cc + - Reordered #includes, removed extra #ifdeffing. Removed extra #includes. + - Split up actions into CSV, MySQL and Postgres specific parts. + - Made the other-db methods also write CSV files if needed. + - Support both overwrite and append modes for CSV. + - TODO: create the mysql code. + - TODO: patch possible security hole in echo passwd | + - TODO: spawn fewer processes for psql. + - TODO? use klocale's date formatting, not US-specific code. +* expense.h + - Changes reflecting the above, and + - Documenting what's going on. + +In other news: + +* conduits/knotes/knotes-action.cc + listNotes() - Removed spurious #ifdef DEBUG. Test mode should always work. + +And oh, wow, thanks to messing around with the logWidget for KPilot, +KPilotTest now also has a funky splash screen :) + +* kpilot/main-test.cc + main() - connect signals from the test action to the log widget. + +KPilot Developer's notes for november 25th 2001 +=============================================== + +More work on the Expense conduit. + +In other news: + +* kpilot/logWidget.{h,cc} + Nifty feature for the sync log: clear the log. Save the log. ToolTips. + + +KPilot Developer's notes for november 18th 2001 +=============================================== + +Kudos to Marko Hollomon for spotting a pointer error in the KPilot daemon +and fixing it. The patch changes pilotDaemon.{h,cc}. + +Thanks too to Palle Girgensohn, who made an icon for the internal memo- +viewer and the KNotes conduit. This looks really neat in the new IconView +mode of the main KJanusWidget. + +Shuffling the DCOP interfaces and cleaning up the UI, by [ade]: + +* logWidget.{h,cc} + Made the splash more like a splash, removed some ugliness, moved the + progress bar into the SyncLog widget. +* kpilotDCOP.h + Removed the spurious filesChanged() call -- use KDirWatcher instead. +* kpilot.{h,cc} + Removed the inheritance from kpilotDCOP.h, moved the DCOP interface to + LogWidget. Removed the status bar, since it's all in the LogWidget anyway. +* pilotDaemon.cc + Renamed KPilotDCOP interface, removed filesChanged DCOP signal. +* Makefile.am + Now logWidget requires kpilotDCOP, so moved that. + +Now that conduits are .so's, the conduitConfigDialog needs to have some +strings changed to reflect that they're not executed anymore [ade]. + +* conduitConfigDialog.{h,cc} + Added a warnNoLibrary function, moved warnings to Qt richtext. + +The FileInstallerWidget has some lousy strings with \n, and it needs +a KDirWatcher [ade]. + +* fileInstallWidget.{h,cc} + Changed the i18n strings to remove \n's. The Watcher remains a TODO. + +Attacked the expense conduit, finally. Maybe *this* one won't run aground on +things like fundamental API changes in the stuff it syncs against. + +* Makefile.am + Removed spurious LIBPISOCK_PATH, moved files around a little. +* setupDialog.{h,cc} + Ported to UIDialog classes, layout fixups. This is the one conduit that + still uses hard-coded layouts. It's possible, see? This isn't really the + way to go, I'd much rather have David B. make dialogs with Qt designer. + Added a break; in ExpenseDBPage::slotPolicyChanged() to avoid warnings. + +KPilot Developer's notes for november 11th 2001 +=============================================== + +Much messing-about with hardware, OSsen and the like has delayed many +things. I've discovered that the configure.in.in and Makefile.am for +KPilot were really badly broken under anything non-Linux. + +* configure.in.in + Possibly fixed all kinds of shell-script breakage (under Solaris) + and not-finding pilot-link under FreeBSD. You will have to pass in + the --with-extra-libs and --with-extra-includes flags; configure now + looks there correctly. +* All the Makefile.am's + Removed the extra spurious $(LIBPISOCK_PATH) which was breaking + things under FreeBSD. +* lib/uiDialog.{h,cc} + Added a virtual bool function validate() so that when Okaying a + dialog, you can check first for valid settings. The default implementation + is return true; +* kpilot/kpilotConfigDialog.{h,cc} + Added validate(), check that string for Pilot device doesn't overflow + the buffer for it. Also enforce the length restriction for the device + name. This is all conditioned on pilot-link < 1.0.0. +* kpilot/kpilot.{h,cc} + Use a KJanusWidget instead of a QWidgetStack and deprecate the View + menu to make it clearer which views / actions / things KPilot actually + *has*. Moved the Spash Screen to the log widget, and made it a real splash. + + +KPilot Developer's notes for october 28th 2001 +============================================== + +So fun to have distributions release broken versions of an application. +It sometimes makes me wish I didn't have to commit stuff to CVS at all +until the application is totally right according to me (which is then +sure to run into trouble with the KDE release schedule). + +Another fun thing is wrestling with broken hardware. But it's finally fixed +now. So I hope the pace picks up again now. I've been working on the +abbrowser conduti sporadically, so we now have at least three conduits +partially ported to the new setup. + +KPilot Developer's notes for october 21st 2001 +============================================== + +2001-10-21 Adriaan de Groot + +Since to do the popmail conduit I first need to learn about IOSlaves +and the KNotes conduit is hard, I spent some time playing with the +abbrowser / KAddressbook conduit. + +* conduits/abbrowser/* + () Removed all the old files for the setup dialog, now using David Bishop's + .ui files with some polish from me (like putting his name in the "Author" + field in the .ui file). + () Fixed up the Makefile.am to make the library and the test apps. + () Added a factory function. + () Removed all the palettes from the deconflict dialog. This takes 150k out + of the .ui file. Next challenge is to make it respect the KDE system + settings. + +2001-10-20 Adriaan de Groot + +Worse is when your AGP bus turns out to be broken instead. + +* conduits/knotes/knotes-action.{h,cc} + () Added method resetIndexes which should be called at the end of every phase + of the sync, basically to reset the counter and list iterator to the + beginning of the list of KNotes. + () Added method modifyNoteOnPilot which does the modified-notes-to Pilot + work. It isn't very robust yet, since it doesn't handle weird cases + (modified yet unknown on Pilot, for example) at all. + +2001-10-19 Adriaan de Groot + +Dern. Having your video card break and being thrown back to a 4MB SiS card +fit only for a firewall with no monitor is *no* fun. Where's a 24-hour +computer store when you need one? Not only that, but I realise I'm +going to have to put some serious thought into the KNotes conduit and +how it is supposed to sync. So since that's hard, I'm going to look at +the Mail conduit instead, since the functionality there is pretty much +complete. + +2001-10-18 Adriaan de Groot + +* kpilot/Icons/ + () Incorporated most of Kristof Borrey's fantastic new icons for KPilot. +* conduits/knotes/ + () Removed old files setupDialog.{h,cc} +* conduits/knotes/knotes-action.{h,cc} + () Added new function getConfigInfo that reads the config file for + the lists of Ids (matching KNote ids to memo ids). + +2001-10-16 Adriaan de Groot + +* lib/options.h + Upped the version number to 4.2.9b just because. +* kpilot/kpilot.cc + Changed some credits around, copyright notice, etc. +* kpilot/Makefile.am kpilot/Makefile-standalone + Fixed some breakage caused by all the moving around of files. You may + need to make clean ; make in KPilot some time to get things back to normal. + +KPilot Developer's notes for october 16th 2001 +============================================== + +2001-10-16 Adriaan de Groot + +Well, the b-day party got in the way of actually releasing something, +and there's quite a lot of polish still to apply -- ie. the KNotes conduit +still does nothing more than install new notes to the Pilot. So I'm going +to start keeping the TODO list more up to date, including assignments for +various people, and keeping the ChangeLog more up-to-date according to +the ChangeLog standard, instead of these long rambling stories. + +2001-10-14 Adriaan de Groot + +Whee! It's KDE's birthday today. What a fitting day to finally release +a version of KPilot that actually works, has useful features, and +doesn't gum up your Pilot hopelessly. + +2001-10-10 Adriaan de Groot + +* Actually add new KNotes to the memo pad. This means conduit syncing is + actually coming closer. Works from kpilotTest. +* Renamed --test --list in kpilotTest, added option --notest to force a + conduit to *really* run (may be hazardous!) from the tester. +* Moved many things into lib/ -- whatever is shared between KPilot and + conduits, basically. +* Wow! There's stuff in PilotAddress I'd never noticed before that deserves + to be moved to a superclass -- like setCategory. Kudos to Greg. +* Updated the TODO list. +* Added a nicer credits section in the about page of dialogs. + +2001-10-09 Adriaan de Groot + +* nothing! Fixed old compile issues on KDE 2.2 iob Solaris. + +2001-10-08 Adriaan de Groot + +* Added lots of things in lib/ to enforce some kind of uniformity on + conduits and factories. Utility functions, too. +* Added an app-icon for the KNotes conduit. It's ugly as all get-out. +* Added a test-conduits and a list-conduits mode to kpilotTest. +* Went back and tested all the stuff we already had, since this + re-architecting carries risks. This showed that not everything had + gone right: I'd lost track of the pilot socket somewhere. Hmph. + Two rounds of re-writing headers, all the parameters finally end + up in the right place. +* The knotes conduit now lists new knotes but doesn't install them. + +KPilot Developer's notes for october 7th 2001 +============================================= + +Ah, post-KDE3-alpha1. And that when KPilot remains completely 2.1 and 2.2 +compatible. A new release of KPilot for 2.2 is imminent, say oct. 14th or so. +KDE 2.2.2 was just released, but contains no changes to KPilot at all -- +all the bugfixes were not of the kind that would fit in the 2.2.2 plan. + +2001-10-07 Adriaan de Groot + +Hmm. Missed a few days. What I remember: + +* Implemented the Null- and KNotes-conduits setup dialogs in plugin + libraries using David's UI files. That was fun and easy to do. +* Make the new-style conduit configurator handle plugin libraries. + This was less fun, but it works. I haven't had any feedback on + which of the two config dialogs is easier to use, but right now + I'm leaning towards the new-style one (two columns + some buttons, + just like it was *long* ago.) D'nD would be nice though. +* The new-style thingy doesn't handle saving which conduits are enabled. +* Made a new subdir lib/, since the plugins need to share some code + with KPilot and you need a .so to make it link properly. +* Wrestled with sensible layout of the about page. + +2001-10-01 Adriaan de Groot + +* Picked up David's new UI file for the conduit configuration dialog + and gave that a whirl. The results can be found in kpilotConfig, + use --help to find out which options to use. + +KPilot Developer's notes for september 30th 2001 +================================================ + +2001-09-30 Adriaan de Groot + +Last minute sneak-it-in-for-the-alpha things. More code and layout cleanup, +although the big commit changing to tabs & the KPilot style was yesterday. +Fixed some minor display bugs, made preHotSync more useful, normalized +some strings. The kpilot/Icons/ directory now contains only those icons +actually needed and used, and they're all in PNG format. Saves lots of space, +in the sense that the KPilot binary is 300k smaller now than it was, due to +dumping XPMs. + +I added a private-d-ptr to kpilot.h, but haven't moved all the data +members there. For an app it doesn't matter so much, but this will reduce +the amount of recompiling and who knows what the plugin API will look like +eventually. + +The conduit configuration is different -- again -- and easier to understand. + +2001-09-27 Adriaan de Groot +* Added FUNCTIONSETUP everywhere. +* Replaced email addresses with kde-pim@kde.org or groot@kde.org. +* Removed qDebug everywhere. + +2001-09-26 Adriaan de Groot + +* Surrounded much debugging output with #ifdef DEBUG. +* Replaced remaining calls to kdDebug() by macros with debug areas. +* Applied indent everywhere. +* Added some () where needed to resolve ambiguity. + +2001-09-25 Adriaan de Groot + +Wrestled with crashes (cerr << i ; debugstatement ; cerr << i ; gave +two different values for i) caused by mixing debug conde and non-debug +code. Discovered that qglobal.h defines DEBUG unless NO_DEBUG is +set. Hmph. Also found that gcc does a poor job in optimizing away +debugging statements with NDEBUG defined. Therefore, debugging statements +will be once again surrounded by #ifdefs. The plan is that I'll get all +the code formatting and this kind of silly issues out of the way in the +next few days and then start to deal with the next problem, namely the +existing conduits. + +2001-09-24 Adriaan de Groot +* kpilot/uiDialog.{h,cc} +* kpilot/kpilotConfigDialog.cc +* kpilot/kpilotConfigDialog_base.ui + Minor changes to get the dialog to size correctly when other fonts / other + settings are used. This solves David's complaint about ugly dialogs. +* kpilot/hotSync.{h,cc} + () Removed lots of commented out code from previous incarnations. + () Added a cleanup action. + () Removed a heap-corruption bug caused by using QStringList & and + then deleting what it points to in FileInstallAction. + () Removed deadlock when last file to install couldn't be read. + () Moved RestoreAction to interactiveSync.{h,cc}, since I feel it + needs to ask "Are you sure?" at the very least. +* kpilot/interactiveSync.{h,cc} + New files with support for, and some types of, interactive syncing. + Used for asking the user questions during a sync, for example confirm + dialogs. This means we can now update user settings &c, since we needed + some interaction for that. Moved RestoreAction to here. +* kpilot/kpilotlink.{h,cc} + Made exec() pure virtual for SyncActions, since that makes more sense + than having an empty default action. +* kpilot/Makefile.am + Added interactiveSync.cc to the list of sources. +* kpilot/pilotUser.h + Squashed a buffer overflow. Squashed several buffer overflows. Yowk! + This code has been around since 1996? +* kpilot/main-test.h + Added some extra code to make the sync cleaner; handled the move of + RestoreAction. + +KPilot Developer's notes for september 23rd 2001 +================================================ + +My current development platform is RH 7.1 with KDE 2.1.1 -- even so I'm +committing things into HEAD. I'm sure this will explode sometime and +I'll be forced to upgrade to KDE 2.2 or worse, but for now, that's the +platform I'm aiming for. + +I'd like to take a moment to thank David Bishop, for sending me .ui files, +for causing noise on the mailing lists, and for being a pleasure to work +with. Together we've wrestled with Qt designer, uic, and replacing the +KPilot dialogs with something sensible made with designer. + +* kpilot/options.h +* kpilot/kpilotConfig.{h,cc} +* kpilot/kpilot.cc kpilot/kpilotDaemon.cc kpilot/main-*.cc + Factored out the --debug flags from each individual app, now in + options.cc. This means each file with a main() was modified too. + I must say it was a real bitch figuring out exactly which sequence of + calls were needed for KCmdLineArgs::addCmdLineOptions(), and then + finding out that ParsedArgs() also needed help. +* kpilot/kpilotDaemon.cc + Sneaking in the QStack<> stuff just under the wire was a bad idea. + Fixed an uninitialized pointer bug. +* kpilot/hotSync.cc + Fixed missing syncDone() signal in FileInstallAction; added some + logProgress() calls, extra debugging. +* kpilot/kpilot.cc + Added KillDaemonOnExit logic to KPilotInstaller. + +2001-09-23 Adriaan de Groot +* kpilot/uiDialog.{h,cc} +* kpilot/kpilotConfigDialog.{h,cc} +* kpilot/kpilotConfigDialog_base.ui + New files -- the .ui file is from David Bishop -- re-implementing the + configuration dialog using modern technology. uiDialog.{h,cc} are + abstract base classes, suitable for reuse. kpilotConfigDialog.{h,cc} + contains the behavior of the dialog, and the .ui file the UI. +* kpilot/kpilotConfig.{h,cc} + Switched around #ifdef and #ifndef. This disabled setting debug levels + in code with debugging on. Duh. Getting it right then showed all kinds + of bugs in the other code. Added some documentation explaining possible + crashes due to missing KApplication instance. + FINALLY did something sensible about code duplication -- added get and + set methods to a subclass of KConfig for all KPilot settings. +* kpilot/kpilotOptions.{h,cc} + Is deprecated and removed. Say hello to the new world of .ui files. +* kpilot/kpilot.{h,cc} +* kpilot/memoWidget.cc +* kpilot/addressWidget.cc +* kpilot/conduitSetup.cc + Lots of little changes to reflect the KPilotConfig changes. Mostly + removing calls to setGroup() and readEntry(), which are now safely + encapsulated. +* kpilot/pilotDaemon.{h,cc} +* kpilot/pilotDaemonDCOP.h + Removed cruft, adapted to KPilotConfigSettings, and adapted to SyncActions. + Changed silly startHotSync(int) DCOP method to requestSync(int). + + +2001-09-21 Adriaan de Groot +* kpilot/hotSync.{h,cc} + Added an InstallFilesAction class, to run during a HotSync. + +2001-09-20 Adriaan de Groot +* kpilot/kpilotlink.{h,cc} +* kpilot/main-test.{h,cc} + All these files changed because of yet another re-architecting. Now we + have HotSyncActions, which have direct access to the PilotDeviceLink, + and which do "something". The test action just lists the databases + present on the device. This has been tested with USB and with serial + devices. +* kpilot/hotSync.{h,cc} + Changed again to split the actions away from the device link (really, + how I ever decided on that is a mystery to me now). +* kpilot/Makefile-standalone + A Makefile that can be tweaked, that does not use autoconf, and is + useful for making standalone tarballs. + +2001-09-17 Adriaan de Groot +* kpilot/Makefile-kpilotConfig + () New file for building a standalone config program. +* kpilot/main-config.{h,cc} + () New .h file, new classes for implementing some behavior. The behavior + is very minimal right now, but as an illustration for David (hey, now + he needs to learn C++ coding) it's fine. +* TODO + () Thought of lots of new things to do. + +KPilot Developer's notes for september 16th 2001 +================================================ + +KPilot now compiles completely again, at least on a KDE 2.1.1 platform. +I'll check w/ KDE 2.2 as soon as I get that working here, and then we'll +take another look at Qt3 -- I saw Cornelius has already put some changes in. + +2001-09-15 Adriaan de Groot +* TODO + () Added a TODO file. I didn't copy all the TODO's from the ChangeLog + into it, though, since many make no sense right now. + +2001-09-13 Adriaan de Groot +* kpilot/kpilotlink.{h,cc} + () Changed fTransientDevice into fDeviceType since we have lots of + variants to deal with. + () Added functions installFiles() and installFile() to handle + the installation (!) of files to the Pilot. +* kpilot/pilotDaemon.cc + () Finally dealt with all the changed classes and methods of the + device link. + (slotEndHotSync) No need to tell the link to end the Sync, since + it's the one that's telling *us*. + +2001-09-08 Adriaan de Groot +* kpilot/options.h + () I've installed RH 7.1 and gone back to KDE 2.1.1. Whee. They've + somehow utterly broken kdDebug() and kdWarning(). Added compile flag + DEBUG_CERR to make all the debugging info go to cerr instead. +* kpilot/kpilot.cc + () Startup notification was added to startService...() in 2.2, so now + there's an #ifdef handling that case. + +2001-09-07 Adriaan de Groot +* kpilot/pilotComponent.h + () Fixed up #ifdefs for new style +* kpilot/kpilotlink.h + () Make many data members private with protected access functions. + (statusString) Made into a virtual function. + +2001-09-06 Adriaan de Groot + +* kpilot/Makefile.am + () Forgot to add logWidget.cc to kpilot_SOURCES +* kpilot/kpilotOptions.cc + () Added more tooltips, switched most to <qt></qt> rich text. + () Changed default value for SyncFiles to true. +* kpilot/kpilotlink.{h,cc} + () Added new state CreatedSocket and member fRetries + (open) Allow for retries on pi_bind(), since it may fail on + USB style devices. + () Added ASSERT() and member fDeviceLink to enforce singleton=ness. +* kpilot/main-test.{h,cc} + () Added ASSERT() to enforce singleton-ness. +* kpilot/hotSync.{h,cc} + () New files, containing most of the old HotSync code from + kpilotlink.{h,cc}, now using the new KPilotDeviceLink base class. + +KPilot Developer's notes for september 5th 2001 +=============================================== + +It's tough keeping this ChangeLog up-to-date, since I'm doing +lots of work but not committing much to CVS. But I'll try to +keep things documented nonetheless. + + +2001-09-05 Adriaan de Groot + +A new application, kpilotTest, has been added. It does a very basic +test of the pilot-link library and some device handling for KPilot. +It is *not* installed by default, since it's pretty much useless for +normal use, but useful to get some feedback about whether the +new architecture works as expected. + +A new widget, LogWidget (logWidget.{h,cc}) is now included for, yup, +logging stuff. It's used to long things during a sync. + +pilotListener is no longer built or needed. + +A new application, kpilotConfig, has been added. It is not installed +by default. It just calls up a config dialog for KPilot, much like +kpilot --config does. It's useful mostly because it exercises a clear +subset of the code. + +I've tooltipified (?) the whole hardware setup dialog. I think it really +needs more work, since the distribution of options is really unclear. +And why are exactly *these* things grouped together? The "Address" tab +really should go. + +The compilation of everything besides kpilotTest and kpilotConfig +is now seriously broken (tm). + +KPilot Developer's notes for september 3rd 2001 +=============================================== + +Hoo doggies. This is a *big* set of changes. I finally sat down +to do some of the serious rework that KPilot has been needing for +a long time. In essence: + +* Use DCOP for as much communication as possible, and +* Support USB devices and other transient device nodes. + +Basically PilotDaemon and KPilotLink have been completely rewritten. + +What more is there to say? Almost every file has changed, even the +coding guidelines have been relaxed (I'm not going to put #ifdefs +around #include anymore, not since it turns out that the gnu cpp +handles this situation efficiently anyway). + +Comments and documentation in most files have been vastly improved. + + +KPilot Developer's notes for august 27th 2001 +============================================= + +Hm. Long time no notes. Which is not to say that nothing happened, +since while I was away at a conference in Finland I dropped in at +Marko G's place (see patches listed way down below) and we had a great +time talking about KPilot, hacking, etc. I forget what I patched +there, though. + +2001-08-27 Adriaan de Groot +* kpilot/addressWidget.* + Fixed up Martin's patch to make it comply with the KPilot coding + style, added some more docs, did a bunch of re-layouting. I read + somewhere that there is a direct correlation between shoddy indenting + style and bug density. +* kpilot/pilotDaemon.h + Added a missing class declaration for KServerSocket. +* kpilot/kpilot.{h,cc} + Removed all remaining KPilotLink cruft. KPilot now communicates with + the daemon through DCOP only. + +Still very much on the TODO list: +- actually make the daemon quit when that's relevant +- ditch pilotListener (backport from kitchensync) + +KPilot Developer's notes for august 2nd 2001 +============================================ + +Vacation good. Bugs bad. Received a wonderful patch in the mail from +Martin Junius, which proves once again that he's really dedicated to +making KPilot look good and work well. Martin's patch "pushes the envelope" +udirng the freeze, so it may not get in into KDE 2.2. + +2001-08-01 Adriaan de Groot + +* kpilot/pilotDaemon.cc + (PilotSystemTray) Fix for bug #29764 -- I'd forgotten to initialize some + pointers in the constuctor again. +* conduits/abbrowser/abbrowser-conduit.cc + (main) Workaround for bug #28104 allowing abbrowser to start from the conduit. +* conduits/abbrowser/Makefile.am + Minuscule change enabling --enable-final builds here. + +2001-07-23 Martin Junius <mj@m-j-s.net> + +* kpilot/addressEditor.cc (MakeField, MakeFieldL): removed i18n(), + now done in initLayout(). + (initLayout): use i18n() for label strings passed to + MakeField. This is IMHO a cleaner approach than using I18N_NOOP() + as before. + (phoneLabelText): new function, get text for phone label, + basically fAppInfo->phoneLabels[] featuring some sanity checking. + (fillFields): use phoneLabelText(). + (initLayout): dito. + (initLayout): argument addressInfo removed, no longer needed. + +2001-07-21 Martin Junius <mj@m-j-s.net> + +* kpilot/addressEditor.cc (initLayout): use m_phoneLabel[] for + display phone labels because this change from entry to entry and + cannot be set to fixed texts. + (fillFields): update phone labels for editor dialog. + (initLayout): reworked and hopefully ;-) improved spacing. + +* kpilot/addressWidget.cc (setupWidget): replaced QMultiLineEdit + with QTextView for address info widget. + (slotShowAddress): function totally rewritten to use QTextView + and the Qt pseudo-XHTML code for formatted display of the + address entry. The sequence and formatting is more or less what + my Palm IIIxe does. + +KPilot Developer's notes for june 15th 2001 +=========================================== + +The 2.2b1 tarballs are packaged real soon now. Whee! +This marks the release of KPilot 4.2.3 (KDE 2.2, third +subpackage release (alpha1, alpha2, beta1)). This version +scheme makes it much easier to keep track of what was +released when. + +Many bugs were fixed after Cornelius sent a message +asking about the KPilot code; the abbrowser conduit +has been renamed the KAddressBook conduit (it's still in +conduits/abbrowser), some little stuff in the vcal conduit +was fixed, much dead code was removed from KPilot and +some code was simplified. + +Cornelius' mail also somehow pushed me into reading the +KDE-PIM server suggestions. I'm sure you've noticed how +much mail *that* has caused. + +KPilot Developer's notes for june 5th 2001 +========================================== + +[ade]: Well, I'm back from my conference -- which was pretty neat -- and lo! +In my mailbox are many patches to be applied. Thanks guys. This keeps +KPilot moving forward even when all of the "regular" developers are +doing silly things (like moving). + +2001-06-05 Palle Girgensohn + +* */Makefile.am + I had to tweak some Makefiles to get kpilot working on FreeBSD. + KPilot must include LIBPISOCK_PATH in its INCLUDES setup. + [Newer CVS versions already did, but I would like to note my + appreciation for sent-in patches that aid in portability -- ade] + +2001-06-02 Philipp Hullmann + +* conduits/vcalconduit/*.{h,cc} + This is a new version of my large todoconduit/vcalconduit patch, + hopefully more suitable for human consumption than the previous one. It + mostly splits the large sync functions into smaller pieces, simplifies the + code for recurring events a lot, and moves some more code to vcalBase. + +* kpilot/pilot*Entry.cc + ... and one more patch to PilotDateEntry and PilotTodoEntry: replace + notes of length 0 with empty ones. + +2001-05-23 Philipp Hullmann + +* kpilot/pilot{Date,Todo}Entry.{h,cc} + Many fixes realted to accidental freeing of unallocated memory + and some pointer ugliness. Fixes rare crashes on machines where + malloc() doesn't zero the memory. + +2001-05-25 Adriaan de Groot + +* *.cc, options.h + Simplified the debugging code, no more #ifdef DEBUG if (debug_level &) + stuff, just straightforward DEBUGXXX statements which get optimized + aay for free when debugging is turned off. + + +KPilot Developer's notes for may 14th 2001 +========================================== + +Not a lot of movement on the coding front for me [ade]; I +did remember mothers' day though. Changes relevant to KPilot: + +* abbrowser has moved into kdebase, so the abbrowser conduit will + now be available to everyone, not just those that also compile + all of kdepim. + +2001-05-08 Marko Gronroos + +* conduits/popmail/* + Totally revamped the mail conduits with a new, well designed + setup. This solves most of the smtp and sendmail problems + we've been having. + + +KPilot Developer's notes for may 7th 2001 +========================================= + +It's been great to receive patches from all over the place in the +past two weeks. What has been fixed is listed below; I have the nasty +feeling that one set of patches has slipped through the cracks. If +you've sent me a patch in the past two weeks and don't find yourself +listed here, please let me know. + +2001-04-27 Adriaan de Groot <adridg@cs.kun.nl> + +* I actually worked on the docs. Stephan Kulow's meinproc + HTMLizer was wonderfully useful here. The docs aren't + completely up-to-date yet, but they're moving. + +2001-04-28 Martin Junius <mj@m-j-s.net> + +* kpilot/kpilot.cc + (initMenu): use KToggleAction and setExclusiveGroup for view menu. + (addComponentPage): same here for the other components. + (initMenu): setChecked for view_kpilot action. + +2001-05-07 Philipp Hullmann + +* conduits/vcalconduit/todo-conduit.cc + (): fixed missing due-date bugs + + + + + +KPilot Developer's notes for april 26th 2001 +============================================ + +Ahh, spring is in the air; the time when a young man's mind turns +to nights of C++ hacking. This has been a great few weeks for open- +source collaboration. I've had useful and helpful mail from Philipp +Hullmann, Martin Junius, and Marko Gronoos (maybe more -- if i've +forgotten you please complain privately) with patches, hints, and +offers of help. Thanks guys! + +* Fixed the non-initialization of the conduitCombo pointer by + removing it completely. (Thanks Martin!) At compile-time you can + choose between XML and traditional UI style. [19-4] +* Greg's abbrowser conduit is (almost) ready for the prime-time! [23-4] +* Fixed bug where absent executables could hang the conduit + setup dialog. [23-4] +* Fixed small UI bug where toggling toolbar didn't resize the contents + of the main KPilot window. [23-4] +* Removed unnecessary connection to (serial) pilot database when + conduits are started in --info or --setup mode. [23-4] +* Discovered many i18n bugs in the sendmail conduit. Ouch. Some fixed. [23-4] +* In a flash, implemented sending-via-KMail in the sendmail conduit. + This is utterly untested and possibly hazardous. I'd appreciate it + if some people used a test account for KMail and tried it out. + I will too, soon. [23-4] +* Looked for the right place to force KPilot conduits to use the KPilot + .po file. The TLs are now OK. Thanks to Marko for prodding me to sort + this bug out (conduit in Finnish is "siirtokanava"). [24-4] +* Added QToolTips and buddies to the NULL conduit setup. [24-4] +* Fixed a bug in the KMail sending if you use a different outbox + from "outbox". [26-4] +* Made KPilotLink::addSyncLogEntry marginally more useful -- this + is to work towards a read log window. As a side effect (which + obscures what I've done a little) I've reformatted kpilotlink.h + according to the coding style guide, and added docs. [26-4] + +Todo: + +* Found out why the vcal and todo conduits are so slow -- they + really do read in the whole Pilot database through the serial + line *twice* each sync. This needs fixing. [19-4] +* Add QToolTips to the remaining conduits. [24-4] +* Add "buddies" to relevant entry fields (usually QLineEdits). [24-4] +* Remove all the UI stuff from KPilotLink and put it somewhere sensible. [26-4] +* Split KPilotLink into the client and server ends. [26-4] + +The following list is stuff from the ChangeLog that was once on +the Todo list; I'm repeating it here because it was time we went +through it again to see how things stand. I've added comments in +[ ] after each. + +* Split KPilotLink into its separate functionalities: config management, + local database management, and link from daemon to conduits. [partly + done, but kpilotlink still serves both ends of a client-server link] +* Make KPilot and KPilotDaemon communicate only through DCOP. [bad idea - + causes extra overhead, and the kpilotlink protocol is pretty good] +* Add an extra message concerning NULL user on hotsync. +* Make the progress bar show something during a conduit sync. +* Should just use the KPilotLink::config object to store all kinds + of user settings instead of copying them from the config file to + local variables, since this is just asking for inconsistency. + [dunno -- as long as KPilot is the app for configuring what the + daemon does, we just have to get KPilot to tell the daemon to re- + read the config file when something changes.] +* Clean up more of the butt-ugly parts of the code base [less of this now!] +* KPilot is an i18n nightmare [less of this now!] +* The password dialog in the popmail conduit is probably a very bad idea + I think kdesud should come into play here. [not looked into] +* The messages need validation - Pilot vs pilot, HotSync vs whatever +* Actually *doing* a fast sync for Heiko +* More and better information in the progress bar +* KPilot should display the sync log as well, just like the Pilot + does. This is useful for reporting the result of a sync to the + user (who then doesn't need to look at the Pilot) +* I noticed Thomas Zander has submitted an official wishlist item: + DateBk3 (the new date book format in PalmOS3.5) support. I think + I'll get back to him on that when Mirko pans out with the free + hardware goodies from Palm :) + +KPilot Developer's notes for april 19th 2001 +============================================ + +* Martin Junius has contributed an XML GUI framework for KPilot, so + it now finally uses the "modern" way of doing GUIs. This *does* + mean it's time for yet-another set of screenshots for the docs + and yet-another set of menus for users to get used to. [14-4] +* Disposed of reported bug: bad category selection. [15-4] +* Moved the todo-conduit into the vcalconduit directory. This makes + building much simpler. [15-4] +* Fixed up more #include shenanigans for --enable-final. (Don't + forget the #ifndef conventions from HOWTO-CODE.txt!) KPilot now + builds without warnings with --enable-final --disable-debug. [15-4] + +Things to do: + +* Fixup the documentation. +* Add QToolTips to the conduits setups, KPilot's setup, and the conduit setup. + This is already partially done, but someone else needs to finish this off. +* Make KPilot installation and run easier -- JPilot seems to work out-of-the + box on systems where KPilot doesn't. +* Look into bugs #23385 (crash in VCalConduit), #20318 (munged 8-bit chars) + and #24291 (doubled appointments). + +KPilot Developer's notes for april 8th 2001 +=========================================== + +It seems like only yesterday that KDE 2.1.1 was out, and we're already +in KDE 2.2b1. Thoreau said "Simplify, Simplify". Anyway, this week's +feature creep: + +* Bugfix for infinite loop when changing categories. [1-4] +* Some xpms could profitably be removed, since we use pngs now. [1-4] +* I normalized some more header-file #ifdef / #defines. [1-4] +* Incorporated patches from Aaron Seigo. [1-4] +* The todo conduit didn't compile due to changes in vcalBase. [1-4] +* The vcal conduit's test mode has been expanded. [1-4] +* KPilot's version number has been upped (again) to 4.2.1 for the + KDE 2.2a1 release; I hope we can up the revision number with every + release of KDE 2.2 move on to KPilot 4.3 with KDE 2.3. [9-4] +* Messed around with some of the icons and images. [9-4] + + +KPilot Developer's notes for march 24th 2001 +============================================ + +KDE 2.1.1! With bugfixes and translation fixes! So only some of the +bugfixes listed under march 10th have made it into there. On the +western front though, we have: + +* Chris Molnar has started work on DB integration for the expense conduit, + so that you can actually do something useful with it. The CSV export seems + to be done, too. Thanks Chris! +* Greg Stern has pretty much finished the abbrowser conduit (which a *lot* + of people have wanted for a long time). It hasn't been committed yet, but + will be soon. +* The memo viewer has been very slightly beautified. +* Some work for bugs #22112 and #21908, fixing deficiencies in the todo- + conduit and in selecting categories under other locales. This isn't + done yet, though -- some attempts have been checking into CVS for testing. + + +KPilot Developer's notes for march 10th 2001 +============================================ + +This weeks "cleanup" action is to normalize the #ifdef thingies in +the header files so that they follow some kind of plan. And then reduce +the number of #includes actually included by adding #ifdefs areound most +of them, to prevent redundant #includes. This is a pain, but some say +it's worth it in compile time. (See Documentation/HOWTO-CODE.txt for info). + +* Removed yet another silly struct tm issue. [4-3] +* Added FileInstaller to KPilotDaemon. [4-3] +* Added DCOP to KPilot. Files dropped on daemon show up in KPilot. [4-3] +* Added a #define KPILOT_VERSION to unify all the version strings. [5-3] +* Added Documentation/HOWTO-CODE.txt for the source code conventions. [5-3] +* Fixed a bunch of Solaris compile issues. [5-3] +* Factored out a bunch of generic vcal code from the vcal conduit into + a new base class VCalBaseConduit; the todo conduit also inherits from + there. [10-3] +* Yet another stab at the "latin1 chars munged in KOrganizer" bug. [10-3] + +The double-sync problem still exists though, which is bad. I suspect that +some extra bytes are left waiting in the serial port queue after slotEndSync +but I haven't got that sorted out yet. + +The web-site has been updated, finally, which means you can finally check +for new releases and info there again: + + http://www.slac.com/~pilone/kpilot_home/ + +And, I've started to use KDevelop 1.4 for maintaining KPilot. I'm still +making the transition from vi / make / 4 konsole windows, but so far I've +been mostly pleased by the effect it has. + +Bugs that are still open in the bug database: (Dan? you bored?) + +* Todo conduit doesn't take due dates into account +* Double sync +* Address edit window doesn't follow addressDB custom fields & layout + +Things to think about: + +* Usability. I've swept all the menu items into one "File" menu that + contains two configure wrenches, 4 actions, and a quit button. I'm + wondering whether this is the right way to go or whether separate + "file", "sync" and "conduit" menu items would be better. + + + +KPilot Developer's notes for march 4th 2001 +=========================================== + +So after "the big cleanup" I've continued doing cleanup code in smaller +chunks with more commits, mostly for reasons of bug-tracking. Dates in [] +indicate when the fix or change was committed. + +* Removed a really stupid crash from KPilotConfig::fixed(). [23-2] +* The internal conduits' names weren't reported properly anymore. This + is a binary and source incompatible change. [23-2] +* Extra debugging while starting the listener process. [26-2] +* Changed exit(-1) to exit(3) in the daemon. [26-2] +* Use Qt layout classes in fileInstallWidget. [26-2] +* Removed some null-conduit comments from the KNotes conduit. [26-2] +* Removed some #include <getopt.h> for Solaris. Cleaned up other + includes as well, just a little. [26-2] +* Started a change to KActions. [ 1-3] +* Added a new FileInstaller for use in the daemon and the widget. [ 1-3] + It's currently only used by the widget. +* Added listItems.{h,cc} in response to bug #21392; changed address + and memo widgets to use them. [ 4-3] + +KPilot Developer's notes for february 19th 2001 +=============================================== + +Yay! KDE 2.1 is out. Which means we can commit all kinds of changes +to KPilot again, not just well-thought-out bugfixes. That means that +we can get to work on cleaning up the code base again. + +* Split all the config-file stuff out of KPilotLink into a new class + KPilotConfig. Fixed all the resulting include dependencies. +* The function fixed() in KPilotInstaller obviously belongs to KPilotConfig. +* The {address,memo,fileInstall} widgets all had unnecessary dependencies + on KPilotInstaller. Removed. KPilotInstaller now adds the widgets it + creates itself. +* Removed as many dependencies on kpilot.h and kpilotlink.h as possible. +* Removed a bunch of char[] buffer stupidities from pilotLocalDatabase &c. +* Removed the database open and close functions from kpilotlink. + +All the sensible fixes, like those listed under feb. 4th, will come later. + +KPilot Developer's notes for february 4th 2001 +============================================== + +Nick Papadonis spent hours tracking down the vcal conduit crash and +we found at least one bug in kpilotlink. It's been removed and I +hope this quashes all the vcal crashes. Other than that there's simply +not much we *can* do with the message and feature freeze and all. +This is why the todo-immediately-after-freeze list exists: + +* Split KPilotLink into its separate functionalities: config management, + local database management, and link from daemon to conduits. +* Make KPilot and KPilotDaemon communicate only through DCOP. +* Add an extra message concerning NULL user on hotsync. +* Sort out all the icon issues. +* Make the progress bar show something during a conduit sync. + + + +KPilot Developer's notes for january 6th 2001 +============================================= + +Happy Millennium. I ([ade]) am off on a two-week vacation to +Calgary, so no KPilot news from me till (almost) february. + +There have been several troublesome bugreports this week, +ranging from "all the conduits crash" to "daemon dies on +hotsync." That don't make me happy at all. + + +Done this week: + +* Built POSE, the Palm Emulator, so this may help in testing + stuff for the OS versions that I don't actually have. + POSE is a real $#*%^ to build, but I can now actually use my + PalmV on-screen (with a PalmIII skin, which is kinda weird). +* Replaced the addressEditor widget with something less stone-age. +* Added a nifty feature so that you can edit one address in two + windows and they keep semi-in-sync. abbrowser doesn't have this + (which means abbrowser has a bug :( ). +* #&$%#$ conduitApp doesn't turn the GUI on by default, so recent + vcal crashes can be blamed on trying to create a KMessageBox without + a GUI :( Changed the default values. +* Tried fixing some ugly icons. I'm no artist though. +* Teeny-tiny layout change in Address page of setup dialog. +* If you try to add records to the address book before you've done + a HotSync / Backup KPilot has an empty AddressDB and doesn't deal + with the address very well. Added a sorry() there. +* Added a doTest() to vcal-conduit. +* More cleanups in the debugging code. There's still a weird mix of + code controlled by --debug and kdebugdialog style stuff. Functions + kdWarning() and kdError() should be given __FUNCTION__ as their + << argument, while kdDebug() should get fname as first argument. + This will make all the debugs optimize away painlessly while keeping + the warnings and error messages. Since messages may change status some + time there's now a #define TEST_DEBUG that makes fname a weird object + that can only be passed to kndbgstreams. So sensible combinations are: + production: NDEBUG defined, DEBUG undefined, TEST_DEBUG undefined + test nodebug: NDEBUG defined, DEBUG undefined, TEST_DEBUG defined + testing: NDEBUG undefined, DEBUG defined, TEST_DEBUG defined +* Actually KPilotLink::doFullBackup wasn't all that bad. Still, all the + code needs going-over for i18n yuckiness. doFullRestore() was worse; + also fixed up directory yuckiness. + Note to self: text for user is i18n()ed, kdDebug() &c. is in + english ('cause Dan or I have to read it :) ) +* Finished integrating Heiko's patches. I believe that both HotSync and + FastSync now do what the ought to do. +* Started adding a DCOP interface to the daemon. + + +Other stuff: + +* It's a HotSync and a Pilot. I'll change strings in the source as + I come across them. As for conjugations: I HotSynced, it HotSyncs. + +Todo: + +* Should just use the KPilotLink::config object to store all kinds + of user settings instead of copying them from the config file to + local variables, since this is just asking for inconsistency. +* Close bug 16457.html in some way. +* More vcal work +* Clean up more of the butt-ugly parts of the code base (less of this now!) +* Tell the KOrganizer docs people about KPilot +* KPilot is an i18n nightmare + - The const char *s in the pilot databases can be addressed most + easily, I think. + - get rid of most of the strcpy, strcat, etc. But not all! + We're stuck with pilot-link, after all. +* The password dialog in the popmail conduit is probably a very bad idea + I think kdesud should come into play here. Anyway, a KMail conduit would + be much cooler and safer. Sigh. + + +Things-to-be-considered: + +* Splitting kpilotlink up into its various functionalities + + +KPilot Developer's notes for december 30th 2000 +=============================================== + +Ho ho ho. Merry Christmas. Happy new year. Last week started out +with Thomas Zander reporting that he *still* has the totally bizzarre +and inexplicable crash in KPilot that he's had ever since KPilot was +ported to KDE2 (+). That pretty much colors this week's work. The rest +of the week was used for the KNotes conduit. After a pleasant exchange +of ideas with Wynn Wilkes (of KNotes) we got a DCOP interface working and +this make the KNotes conduit more useful. Talked to Greg about the +kab conduit and he's enthusiastic about the possibilities there, +we hope to have a framework in CVS soon. + +Done: + +* Claimed some debug areas (5510,5511,5512). +* KNotes rereads the notes dir after a sync, so new notes (which + have come from Pilot memos) appear there. +* KNotes conduit --test now displays all the notes (on screen) that + knotes shares with the pilot. This is a test (!) of the DCOP stuff, + mostly. +* KNotes conduit now has a checksum function (md5) to reduce the + number of notes that has to be copied between KNotes and the + Pilot. +* Applied Dag Nygren's vcal patches so that repeating events now + show up in KOrganizer properly. +* Fixed the button-enabling in the address app +* Added more debugging output for Thomas. +* Added more debugging output for Nick. + +Todo: + +* More vcal work +* Clean up more of the butt-ugly parts of the code base +* Tell the KOrganizer docs people about KPilot +* KPilot is an i18n nightmare + - The const char *s in the pilot databases can be addressed most + easily, I think. + - KPilotLink::doFullBackup should cause i18n people to run away + - get rid of most of the strcpy, strcat, etc. But not all! + We're stuck with pilot-link, after all. +* The messages need validation - Pilot vs pilot, HotSync vs whatever +* The password dialog in the popmail conduit is probably a very bad idea + ++ Thomas' crash produces the following (partial) backtrace: + +#4 0x408960b7 in read_png_image () from /usr/kde2/source/qt-copy/lib/libqt.so.2 +#5 0x40838dd9 in QImageIO::read () from /usr/kde2/source/qt-copy/lib/libqt.so.2 +#6 0x40836cf1 in QImage::load () from /usr/kde2/source/qt-copy/lib/libqt.so.2 +#7 0x408305b2 in QImage::QImage () from /usr/kde2/source/qt-copy/lib/libqt.so.2 +#8 0x40483fcf in KIconLoader::loadIcon () from /usr/kde2/lib/libkdecore.so.3 +#9 0x805a166 in KPilotInstaller::initIcons () + + which is weird since the only possible png image being read is the + quit icon, which is standard in KDE2. Maybe some weird combo of options? + +KPilot Developer's notes for december 18th 2000 +=============================================== + +It looks like kdepim and KPilot aren't going to make the 2.1 release. +Darn. This does give us more time to deal with docs and bugfixes. +Every time I get something done though I find I've discovered two +new things to do :(. I hope Lukas will help out with a lot of the +i18n stuff though. + +Done: + +* Moved all the (english) docs to the correct place. +* More doc fixes: use &kpilot; and &pilot; properly, added screen shots for + various conduit setups. The docs still aren't complete but they're a + darn sight better than they were. +* Modal dialogs need exec() instead of show() +* Changes in kdelibs caused some dialogs to hang in slotCancel() +* Changes in includes means we have to include kdebug.h ourselves +* Get rid of cerr and use kdDebug or kdWarning or kdError as appropriate. + There are still a very few cerrs left in places where we can't rely on + kdDebug(). +* Added #ifdef DEBUG to the debug sections of code. So KPilot now compiles + without debugging stuff. I realise now that I should have stuck to the + KDE kdDebug() guidelines, but, um, I didn't know they existed when the + port from KDE1 to KDE2 started. Darn. + +ToDo: + +* More vcal work +* Clean up more of the butt-ugly parts of the code base +* Detect memo-too-large in knotes conduit +* Try to reduce number of updates in knotes conduit +* Figure out a nice DCOP interface with Wynn (KNotes) +* Finally take a look at kab or whatever for the address book conduit. + Should probably talk to Greg about this one too. +* Tell the KOrganizer docs people about KPilot +* Fix the button-enabling in the address app +* KPilot is an i18n nightmare + - The const char *s in the pilot databases can be addressed most + easily, I think. + - KPilotLink::doFullBackup should cause i18n people to run away + - get rid of most of the strcpy, strcat, etc. But not all! + We're stuck with pilot-link, after all. +* The messages need validation - Pilot vs pilot, HotSync vs whatever +* The password dialog in the popmail conduit is probably a very bad idea + + +KPilot Developer's notes for december 10th 2000 +=============================================== + +Lots of internal stuff going on: + +* The sense of the debugging flags was the wrong way around, + so using --debug 4 gave you all the UI debugging messages + as opposed to just the major and minor ones. This is what + you get from suggesting debug 1023 all the time. +* BaseConduit had some weird debugging output -- not controlled + by --debug -- so patched that up. And there was ugliness in the + icon loading function. This changes the interface to BaseConduit + slightly, 3rd party conduit authors beware. +* Finally fixed up the Makefile.ams for the standard conduits so + that they run properly (without setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH). + +Visible changes: + +* Fixed up the documentation, the screenshots, the descriptions of the + conduits, etc. etc. It's still not complete but at least it matches + what happens when you run KPilot. + +Still on the todo-list: + +* Really fix the vcal conduit. I've patched some things up and once + again I hope it works, but since I can't reproduce the error I'm + a little stuck here. + +Still on the wish-list: + +* Actually *doing* a fast sync for Heiko +* More and better information in the progress bar +* The PilotMemo class is butt-ugly and filled with weird C-string + manipulations. +* KPilot should display the sync log as well, just like the Pilot + does. This is useful for reporting the result of a sync to the + user (who then doesn't need to look at the Pilot) +* I noticed Thomas Zander has submitted an official wishlist item: + DateBk3 (the new date book format in PalmOS3.5) support. I think + I'll get back to him on that when Mirko pans out with the free + hardware goodies from Palm :) + + +KPilot Developer's notes for december 2nd 2000 +=============================================== + +Almost Sinterklaas, so I'd like to wish all the KPilot users in +.nl a Happy Sinterklaas en Weg met de Kerstman. + +UI Changes: + +* Added Heiko's Fast-Sync icon .. but it's ugly and hard to + distinguish from the regular icon. This needs fixing by an artist. +* Added an ugly restore icon as well. +* Added an undocumented config-file option. You can now add the + following line to kpilotrc in the null group if you really want to: + + ToolbarIcons=list + + where list is a comma-separated list of icons to appear on the + KPilot toolbar. You can choose from HotSync,FastSync,Backup and + Restore. The standard setting is: + + ToolbarIcons=HotSync,Backup + + That's not a lot but it should keep Heiko happy for a while and + it reminds us that we should move towards a more modern method + of setting up the UI -- or not? +* Tried to fix some UI weirdneses like: + - Delete Memo button enabled when no memo selected + but QListBox has the nasty habit of always having *something* + selected, even if you can't see what it is. + + Now I know that the internal conduits -- memoWidget and addressWidget + will probably die out soon when we have a real working kab2 conduit + as well as a KNotes conduit, but till then it's nice to have something + that at least obeys basic UI design rules. +* The following bugs in QListBox and QListView made me ditch the old + two column layout with movement buttons for something else. Let me + know which one you prefer. + - There is some *bizzarre* behavior in the handling of + conduits being selected: select the top item in + the left column, the top item in the right column + (um, so install a conduit first) and then the top + item in the left column again. + The new layout allows you to drag conduits from one state (available) + to another (active). Click on a conduit to set it up -- you may have + to doubleclick depending on you KDE settings. + + +Internal Changes: + +* Conduits that crash no longer hang KPilot and the entire sync. +* Made a lot of static const int members of various classes + enum values instead, and added a function write() to CStatusMessages + for a clean way to write status messages to the link. +* Replaced several if else if ... constructions with switch() +* Added a sensibleTitle() and shortTitle() to PilotMemo for use + by the KNotes conduit (and maybe others) + +Documentation: + +* Spent a little time on the (english) documentation and brought a few + parts of it back up-to-date. It needs up-to-date URL's, probably we + should move the mailing list to kde-pim@kde.org, and we need new + screenshots. + +Wishlist: + +* More and better information in the progress bar +* The PilotMemo class is butt-ugly and filled with weird C-string + manipulations. +* KPilot should display the sync log as well, just like the Pilot + does. This is useful for reporting the result of a sync to the + user (who then doesn't need to look at the Pilot) + +KPilot Developer's notes for november 25th 2000 +=============================================== + +Spent most of the week at a conference, but managed to get +the KNotes conduit almost fully functional. New memos (KNotes) +are copied to the desktop (Pilot). Memos changed on the pilot +are changed on the desktop. However, not all deleted memos are +deleted on the other side, nor are modified memos copied +from the desktop to the Pilot. + +I don't know what the desired action for KPilot is in the +cases of deleted memos. Any suggestions? There's now a config +option in the KNotes conduit setup, but maybe that should be +subsumed by the global Local Overrides Pilot setting. Anyway, +if a memo is deleted on the Pilot the corresponding KNote is +deleted as well. + +If KNotes is running and the KNotes conduit makes changes, +these aren't picked up by KNotes. There are also some +obvious race conditions caused by the conduit writing KNotes +config files. This basically means that we need to talk to +the KNotes maintainer to resolve these coordination problems. + +As for the code, I wrote this: + class KNotesOptions : public setupDialog { Q_OBJECT + protected: static const QString KNotesGroup; }; +[with better layout, of course] But there's a static QString +there, and I read somewhere that Static Objects Are Evil (tm). +I could use a const char * there, since it's just the name of +a group in the config file, but what's the consensus on things +like this? + +I did handle some more of Heiko's patches. From last week's list: + - Some phone number magic I don't understand yet + - Some changes in the address import function + - getShowPhone() -- don't understand that yet either + - Fix bad repeat-n-times handling in vcal-conduit +This leaves just the Fast Sync capability still unimplemented. + +Given the release schedule that has been discussed recently +(and we really do want to have KPilot in KDE 2.1, so as to add +a nifty feature to the desktop as a whole) I think feature creep +should be abandoned for the time being and we should try to +fix as many bugs in what we have before the release (around the +middle of december, IIRC). This means testing, lots of it. So +people, take the plunge, give it a try, compile the latest kdepim +CVS stuff with KPilot in it and then complain when your Pilot +catches fire, OK? O yeah .. when you *do* give it a try, make +sure you do something like: + + $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib: + $ kpilot --debug 1023 + +To make sure none of the conduits crashes with library loading +problems and with all the debugging messages turned on. + + +KPilot Developer's notes for november 19th 2000 +=============================================== + +Fixes: + +* Added most of Heiko's patches to the vcal-conduit +* Added convention to conduits --info handling: return "<none>" for + no databases. Handled in conduitSetup as well. +* Made some minor changes to the info page presented in dialogs + (generally the setup dialog of a conduit) so that it gracefully + handles weird settings and handles its own resizing properly. +* Added some const-qualifiers to various char *s +* Add a "kill daemon on exit" feature -- there was already some code + for this, but not complete. +* Changed all the boolean config entries to booleans as opposed to + 0-or-1 ints. +* Removed all the "const char * id defined but not used" warnings +* Added some extra robustness in PilotDaemon::setupConnections +* Made the daemon obey the "show in system tray" setting -- this was + broken during the first port to KDE2 +* Handle reconfiguration through the settings dialog properly -- + at least KPilot picks up the changes to "Kill Daemon on Exit" +* (re)Added --test option to conduits, though not all of them + will support actual tests. +* KNotes conduit is now functional in the sense that notes you write + on your desktop are in fact copied to the Pilot. + +Some general comments: + +* Suggestion: call the desktop files for conduits + conduit-pilot-appname.desktop + and the conduit executables themselves + conduit-pilot-Appname + This at least gives conduits some consistent naming scheme and + the addition of -pilot leaves some namespace for conduits for + other PDA's. + + Well, actually this naming scheme isn't much good. But we *do* + need to think about how to handle sync-programs for various + PDA's in a nice fashion -- I can imagine having a Nokia phone, + a Psion and a Pilot and wanting to sync them all. + +Still on the todo-list: + +* Fix bad repeat-n-times handling in vcal-conduit +* Dealing with the rest of Heiko's patches + - Some phone number magic I don't understand yet + - Some changes in the address import function + - Fast-sync capability (this is different from SyncLast) + - getShowPhone() -- don't understand that yet either +* More and better information in the progress bar +* The PilotMemo class is butt-ugly and filled with weird C-string + manipulations. + + +KPilot Developer's notes for november 14th 2000 +=============================================== + +Lots of things have changed in the class hierarchy. + +* Jorg's bug in the memo-import function was handled OK in addressWidget, + but it seemed clumsy to deal with the same problem in two different + places. Moved findSelectedCategory() to PilotComponent. Added some + other convenience functions there for the category combo box. + +* The getConfig() change was very poorly done, sorry about that. + Added some (semi-) bizarre debugging functions into options.{h,cc} + that are #ifdeffed out. + +* Ditched all the #ifdef KDE2 stuff and dropped the KDE1 backport. + +* Added a .desktop file for the NULL conduit (with some translations + of my own) + +* Added Qt2 layout code to the address and memo widgets so that they + become easier to i18n() (ie. they display properly when the string + lengths change). + +* Adopted some of Heiko's patches: + - New feature ForceFirst causes every conduit to behave + as if FirstTime=true every time (this is off by default, + which matches previous behavior) + - New feature SyncLastPC causes a slow sync if the Pilot + is synced with a different PC than the last time it + was synced (this is on by default, matching old behavior) + - "fixed" font in address and memo editor replaced by the + user's system preference + - In some cases the title (first name+last name or something + similar) in an address was empty. This now gives the title + [unknown] + - Similar for memos + +Let's sum up the current wishlist: + +* KNotes conduit +* Dealing with the rest of Heiko's patches + - Proper multi-day appointments in the vcal conduit + - Some phone number magic I don't understand yet + - Some changes in the address import function + - Fast-sync capability (this is different from SyncLast) + - getShowPhone() -- don't understand that yet either + These patches are quite useful but it takes a lot of work to + unsnarl them, which is why they're taking so long. + + + +Developer's notes for november 9th 2000 +======================================= + +What's new? Lots of little bugs found by code review, some new (trivial?) +features. KPilot 4 is in Mandrake cooker so it receives a little more +attention now than before. + +* Jorg Habenicht found a bug in the memo-import function. It causes + array-bounds overruns. The same bug was present in many other parts + of the memo widget. I think I got them all. + +* Added some robustness checking in the daemon to cover weird cases + like running conduits by hand. + +* Added better handling of the "first time" dialog in the vcal conduit. + +* The NULL-conduit now has an extra configuration field "Databases" which + you can attach it to. This allows you to do a bogus conduit sync with + a database (almost equivalent to putting it in the "backup only" entry + of the global KPilot settings, except you run the external conduit. + +* Made KPilotLink::getConfig return a reference instead of a pointer, to + avoid new()ing and delete()ing the config data structure all the time. + I hope this increases consistency as well. This has caused lots of + little type changes throughout the conduit system, so third-party + conduit authors beware :) -- all the changes cause compile failures though. + +* Jorg brought in a patch so that KPilot uses the pilot-link environment + variables to set initial values. + + +Some wishlist-style items: + +* The memo and address internal conduits are (a) ugly and (b) impossible + to i18n properly, because they have hard-coded sizes. Need to spend some + time cleaning that up. + +* Really, it's time to write a conduit that syncs with KNotes. It's + not that hard, but KNotes has some silly bugs that need fixing first :( + +* A patch to introduce a notion of "fast sync" has been produced for + KPilot 3.2.1 -- we're now looking into how to integrate that into + the KPilot 4.x series. The idea is you only run a sync on the databases + you have a conduit for. + +Developer's notes for october 29th 2000 +======================================= + +* Thomas Zander pointed out that KPilot doesn't write a config file + the first time it is run, leading it to *still* believe it's the + first time it's run the next time. Fixed. + +* In PilotDaemon::setupConnections() things have been reorganized so that + a failure on opening the Pilot device will not allow KPilot to start. + +* Added an undocumented Debug= entry to conduit's configuration, to + ease debugging. Conduits will have to read this themselves. + +* Added a "Run KPilot" menu item to the daemon. + +And there's some really strange behavior that I've noticed: when I run +the setup for an external conduit -- which is a separate process -- +KPilot always "jumps in front" of that conduits setup dialog when I +give KPilot the focus. This is very irritating. + +Bugs noted still remaining: + +* Much weirdness in conduit startup (mode must be set before running + the conduit's constructor, but mode wasn't set till after) has been + looked at but not repaired. + +* The vcal-conduit had trouble running a sync the first time (you really + should do a backup instead). We're working on this one. + + + +Developer's notes for october 26th 2000 +======================================= + +OK, I admit it: + + code,commit,announce,test + +is the *wrong* way to do things. I made some mistakes in the code that +looks up conduits in the .desktop files, so conduits *still* won't run +with this morning's commits. This has been fixed now, and the conduits +run. Of course, vcalconduit just SIGSEGV'ed on me, so ... + +This brings me to a couple of wishlist items for KPilot: + +* A "Cancel" button. I just clicked on Backup when I was aiming for + HotSync, and there's nothing I can do about it. + +* A timeout when running conduits so that badly behaved conduits don't + hang up the KPilot system. + +Some other minor issues have been fixed as well: + +* Boatloads of compiler warnings in the included .xpm files +* Some i18n stuff + +And new questions raised for people who know the code (I'm thinking +Preston or Cornelius may be able to explain): + +* vcal-conduit.cc line 522, what's the purpose of voStatus there? + + + +Developer's notes for october 23rd 2000 +======================================= + +It's been a week where I couldn't bring myself to tackle +really big problems, like an address-book conduit for +kab or pine. So I sat back and polished things, wandered +through the code finding little bugs (if I was an OpenBSD +kinda guy I'd call it a proactive code audit). This has +led to: + +A whole slew of minor fixes: + +* Updated Help menu in main menu bar +* Removed superfluous about tab in kpilot setup dialog +* Fixed config-doesn't-change bug +* Disable autostart-daemon option if .desktop file unavailable +* Added quit icon into file menu +* Added hotsync and backup icons into file menu +* Cleaned up include files in conduitSetup.h +* Cleaned up dialog code in conduitSetup.cc for KDE2 compliance +* Fixed conduits-not-running-during-sync bug in kpilotlink.cc +* Fixed a minor Qt2 incompatibility in messageDialog.cc +* Fixed some i18n issues in kpilotlink.cc +* Replaced sprintf stuff with QString operations in kpilotlink.cc +* Added hot-sync to file menu for consistency (it's in the toolbar) +* Added logic in showTitlePage in kpilot.cc to reduce flicker + +Some remaining issues: + +* The icon for "About KPilot" in the help menu is the wrong one +* We still need pretty icons for various things (like external conduits) + +Some questions: + +* Is there a memory leak with the config file in kpilotOptions.cc? +* Do we really want to be new() and delete()ing the config file so + often? Perhaps getConfig() should do some caching. +* Should we add icons for the other menu items? +* Is there an entry iterator in KConfig so that you can iterate over + entries in a certain group (and possibly delete them?) + +Some philosophical stuff: + +* Maybe it's time to ditch the internal conduits altogether and work + on external conduits for kab and knotes? Although that would still + leave the file installer. Maybe a splash of the kpilot logo and then + an icon view of what has been dropped into the file installer? + + + +As far as I can tell KPilot 4 now has the same functionality and bugs +as KPilot 3.2.1 did (with some polishing). So you still have to be +careful with KOrganizer. But I think the framework is sufficiently +OK to make it worthwhile to really write some conduits for various +KDE 2 apps. Like a kab conduit and a knotes conduit. |