I wrote this for this last week’s commit digest and didn’t want to steal Danny’s thunder, but here’s my thoughts on this year’s SOC KPilot project… The KPilot summer of code project is winding down to a close, with this Monday being the “pencil’s down” date. Bertjan Broeksema has done an outstanding job and has accomplished all that we said we wanted to on our Summer of Code proposal. The problem that we faced in KPilot was that each of our conduits did a lot of things in common, but all of them had their own code for doing these things. This has made maintenance a much harder job than it should be, and has led to some conduits being Read more…

First, Bertjan is doing a wunderbar job with the keyring conduit in KPilot/trunk! I stayed up a bit last night and hacked for a while. Felt darned good. One annoyance that we’ve found, though, is that it looks like KWallet::Wallet (the KDE wallet subsystem) assumes that every program that wants to access the Wallet subsystem will have a top-level window. This assumption is not true with KPilot’s syncing daemon (kpilotDaemon). So I’ve sent an e-mail off to kde-core-devel, and hope to hear something back on it soon, but does anyone in lazy-web-ville know what the Correct (TM) way is to work around this? Secondly, my darling little Treo 650 just this morning decided to start vomiting on my blue suede Read more…

Woohoo! I ate far too much cheesecake, far too late in the evening tonight, and therefore am still up at 2:30 a.m., hacking on KPilot. And oi(!) does it feel good. =:) We now have a working daemon, a working configuration window, a working kpilot main window, logging happening correctly over the DBus, and with the code that I’m about to commit to trunk, we now are able to get through a hotSync without crashing! W[][]t! Next on my agenda, if Adriaan doesn’t beat me to it, is to rip every hint out of KPilot’s built-in database viewers that makes it look like it could/should/might be able to perform CUD (Creates/Updates/Deletes) actions. Die, devil-bird, die!! Oh, also, all of the Read more…

KPilot KDE3, meet KPilot KDE4 Originally uploaded by vanRijn Finally got some time to work on KPilot in trunk late last night. I guess the key thing is… when not sure what to do, just do something. I’ve been feeling very overwhelmed as of late with all that is broken and not working and different and changed, etc., with KPilot in trunk, and have been a bit paralyzed by it all. Of course, having to wait a full 8-hours (I kid you not) for qt-copy, kdesupport, kdelibs, kdepimlibs, kdebase, and then kdepim to compile and install on my blazing-fast T42 Thinkpad is beyond frustrating too. But anyway, I have started looking at the UI for the time being. I’ll work Read more…