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KOrganizer News archive: 2003

New hot stuff: Gentoo Linux meetings

November 17, 2003: Luke-Jr from the Gentoo Linux project wrote in to point us to the Gentoo Linux calendar file. The ics-file itself is hosted on the Gentoo webserver but is also available from the hot stuff section in KOrganizer. Luke informed us that the calendar file will be continually updated and contains Gentoo meetings, releases, and various things like that. Thank you, Luke-Jr.

 

New hot stuff: Schulferien Berlin 2004

November 16, 2003: Andreas Silberstorff contributed a new item in the new hot stuff series: Schulferien Berlin 2004. Thank you, Andreas!

 

Update: New hot stuff for German users: Feiertage Deutschland bis 2010 und Ferientermine Niedersachsen

September 12, 2003: Christian Burmann sent us a newer version of his calendar file "Feiertage Deutschland bis 2010". Christian added another calendar file for German people who live in Niedersachsen: Ferientermine Niedersachsen bis 2010. Thanks to Christian Burmann for the contribution to the KOrganizer hot stuff series!

 

New hot stuff for Austrian users: Feiertage Österreich bis 2010

September 5, 2003: For people who live in Austria we have a new hot stuff calendar: Feiertage Österreich bis 2010. Thanks a lot to Manfred Larcher for the contribution to the hot stuff series.

 

New hot stuff for German users: Termine der Universität Osnabrück 2003/2004

August 30, 2003: For students of the university of Osnabrück, we have a new hot stuff calendar: Termine der Universität Osnabrück 2003/2004. Thanks a lot to Carsten Niehaus for the contribution to the hot stuff series.

 

New hot stuff for German users: Feiertage Deutschland bis 2010

August 30, 2003: For people who live in Germany we have a new hot stuff calendar: Feiertage Deutschland bis 2010. Thanks a lot to Christian Burmann for the contribution to the hot stuff series.

 

New hot stuff for German users: Schulferien NRW bis 2010

August 25, 2003: For German people who live in Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) we have a new hot stuff calendar: Schulferien Nordrhein-Westfalen bis 2010. Thanks a lot to Andreas Kronsbein for the contribution to the hot stuff series.

 

Native Windows version of KOrganizer released as part of Aethera

August 21, 2003: theKompany.com recently has released the 1.0 version of their cross-platform PIM suite Aethera. This includes KOrganizer as calendar and todo list component.

The KOrganizer component is based on the original unmodified KOrganizer source code and has been ported to Windows using a similar technology as was used for porting KOrganizer/Embedded to the Qtopia environment. This once again is a great proof of the power and flexibility of open source development and KDE technology.

 

KOrganizer 3.1.3 released

July 29, 2003: On July, 29 2003, the KDE Project released KDE 3.1.3, including KOrganizer 3.1.3. KDE 3.1.3 is the third maintenance release of the KDE 3.1 release series and it features many problem corrections. Changes and bugfixes in KOrganizer are:

• fix french and czech holidays

The complete KDE 3.1.3 Changelog is available here.

 

New maintainers for KOrganizer documentation

July 19, 2003: The documentation of KOrganizer has 2 new maintainers: Jürgen Nagel and Stephan Lamprecht. Thanks to Jürgen and Stephan for joining the KOrganizer project and caring for the KOrganizer documentation.

 

New layout for KOrganizer website

July 19, 2003: The KOrganizer website has a new layout, new logo and new colorset since today. We hope you enjoy it :-) If there are any questions about the KOrganizer website, feel free to contact the website maintainer Klaus Stärk.

 

New section on the KOrganizer website: Calendars

July 6, 2003: The KOrganizer website has a new section covering information about sharing and exchanging iCal calendars.

First, we have an overview over calendar sites, websites offering calendars in iCal format. These sites have a huge offer of downloadable iCal calendars covering arts, culture, economics, finance, government, science, sports and many more.

The second page offers the so called hot new stuff calendars that are available via the new Get hot new stuff feature in KOrganizer. Users of KOrganizer can import these calendars from the Help menu in KOrganizer. But we also offer these calendars for download in iCal format.

If you feel that something is missing in this new section, feel free to contact Cornelius Schumacher or Klaus Stärk. You're also very welcome to provide us with more iCal calendars to put up on the KOrganizer webserver.

 

Hot new stuff: KDE 3.2 release plan

July 3, 2003: One of the newest features in KOrganizer is the "hot new stuff", an experimental feature that allows you to share calendar data of general interest with other users of KOrganizer. Today, we added a new hot stuff entry: the KDE 3.2 release plan.

In order to download the release plan and add it to your KOrganizer calendar, please refer to our hot new stuff page. And you're very welcome to provide us with more hot new stuff to publish on our webpage (for more information, please contact Cornelius Schumacher or Klaus Stärk.)

Thanks to Dirk Trompetter for providing the *.ics-file for the KDE 3.2 release plan :-)

 

KOrganizer 3.1.2 released

May 19, 2003: On May, 19 2003, the KDE Project released KDE 3.1.2, including KOrganizer 3.1.2. KDE 3.1.2 is the second maintenance release of the KDE 3.1 release series and it features many problem corrections. Changes and bugfixes in KOrganizer are:

• Exchange plugin supports secure WebDAV
• Fix timezone handling when timezone names are Unicode strings

The complete KDE 3.1.2 Changelog is available here.

 

First beta release of KOrganizer/Embedded 1.1

April 7, 2003: The first beta release of KOrganizer/Embedded 1.1 is now available. New features include recurring events, alarm notification and import of Qtopia calendar and todo list data. See the KOrganizer/Embedded beta page for more details.

 

KOrganizer 3.1.1 released

March 20, 2003: On March, 20 2003, the KDE Project released KDE 3.1.1, including KOrganizer 3.1.1. KDE 3.1.1 is the first maintenance release of the KDE 3.1 release series. It features more and much improved translations and many problem corrections. Changes and bugfixes in KOrganizer are:

• Use correct default duration for events crossing a day boundary (#53477)
• Correctly save category colors (#54913)
• Don't show todos more than once in what's next view
• Include todos in print output of month view (#53291)
• Don't restrict maximum size of search dialog (#54912)
• Make cancel button of template selection dialog work (#54852)
• Don't break sorting when changing todos by context menu (#53680)
• Update views on changes of todos directly in the todo list (#43162)
• Save state of statusbar (#55380)

The complete KDE 3.1.1 Changelog is available here.

 

KOrganizer 3.1 released

January 28, 2003: On January 28th 2003, the KDE Project released KDE 3.1, a major feature upgrade to the successful KDE 3.0 series, including KOrganizer 3.1. The complete announcement and screenshots of KDE 3.1 are available on the KDE website. For more detailed information about new features in KDE, read the KDE 3.1 New Feature Guide or the detailed KDE 3.1 changelog. KOrganizer comes up with a lot of new features and improvements, in detail:

• General
• • User definable templates for events and TODOs
  • Alarms for TODOs
  • Added support for automatic HTML export on save of a calendar file
  • Time table print view
  • New "location" attribute for events
  • Experimental "Get Hot New Stuff" button for downloading and uploading calendar files of common interest
• Views
• • Added new "Next 3 days" view
  • Added selection of time span for a new event in day and week views
  • Direct manipulation of priority, completion status and categories of TODOs by context menus added
  • Deletion of individual instances of recurring events
  • Rewritten month view
  • Coloring of events in month view based on categories
  • Coloring of due and overdue todos
  • Improved "What's Next" view
  • Configurable cell height in week and day views
• Group scheduling
• • iMIP group scheduling functions for TODOs
  • Publishing of Free/Busy information by iMIP conformant email
  • Improved automatisation of group scheduling
• Interopability and integration
• • Support for "webcal" URLs in Konqueror (known from Apple iCal)
  • Support for iCalendar based drag and drop
  • KOrganizer now shares the dialogs for categories with KAddressBook
  • Improved iCalendar conformance
  • Improved right-to-left languages support
  • Bug fixes for non-latin1 encodings
• Plugins
• • New plugin for importing Birthdays of contacts in the KDE address book
  • New plugin for accessing calendar data stored on an Exchange 2000 server

For packages of KDE 3.1, please visit the KDE 3.1 info page and browse the KDE 3.1 Requirements list.

 

New release 2.0 of Outlook2VCal available

January 18, 2003: In October 2002, we announced a new KOrganizer workshop covering Outlook2VCal, a tool for Microsoft Windows® to export data from Microsoft Outlook® as vCalendar file in order to import it to KDE's KOrganizer. On January 14, Randy Pearson released a new version 2.0 of Outlook2Vcal. It is now compatibile with more versions of Outlook®. Randy tested it against Outlook 97®, Outlook 2000® and Outlook 2002® successfully. You can download Outlook2Vcal 2.0 from our page "Importing Calendar Data".

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