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KOrganizer News archive: 2004

New maintainer for KOrganizer

August 25, 2004: Cornelius Schumacher, former maintainer of KOrganizer gave over his position to Reinhold Kainhofer. He announced his decision at the KDE-Summit (aKademy) in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

KOrganizer 3.3 released

August 19, 2004: In the course of the final release of KDE 3.3, there is also a new release of KOrganizer , which is part of the kdepim module. Go get it at the KDE FTP server.

First beta of KOrganizer 3.3 released

July 7, 2004: The first beta version of KOrganizer 3.3 has been released as part of the KDE "Klassroom" release. It has a couple of new features like support for recurring todos and handling of free/busy data. In the groupware area it is now able to access the eGroupware and SUSE LINUX Openexchange servers. In addition to that a lot of bugs have been fixed and further work has gone in improving usability and performance. Get the beta version at the KDE FTP server. KOrganizer is part of the kdepim module. The 3.3 kdepim module is compatible with the KDE framework from version 3.2, so you don't have to upgrade the libraries or the base system to give KOrganizer 3.3 a try.

 

New maintainer for KOrganizer website

May 16, 2004: The website of KOrganizer has a new maintainer: Marcus Grassinger. We welcome Marcus and say thanks to Klaus Stärk who has done a great job with maintaing the KOrganizer home page for the last years. Klaus will focus on the german KDE website in the future.

 

relevantive: KDE 3.2.0 Expert Inspection, including KOrganizer usability

March 24, 2004: relevantive AG conducts usability studies or expert inspections of current linux applications every six to nine months. In March 2004, relevantive published a KDE 3.2.0 Expert Inspection. The major concern of this inspection was to evaluate if the problems that were identified in the usability study were improved in the KDE 3.2.0 release. The evaluation was conducted on the basis of the use cases that were utilised in the linux usability study. The report is available for download (in German language only) as PDF document (~ 1.1 MB).

 

Interface from KLACK.DE to KOrganizer

March 22, 2004: KLACK.de is an Internet based magazine for German television. KLACK.de offers now an interface to transfer your personal TV guide to KOrganizer. Learn more about it on the KLACK.de website.

 

LWN Editor Chooses KOrganizer

March 18, 2004: When LWN editor Jonathan Corbet was forced to search for an alternative for his beloved "ical" calendar application he examined Evolution, KOrganizer, plan, gDeskCal and GNOME-PIM and found a clear winner: KOrganizer 3.2. He loves it as the only competitive replacement for ical and praises the top-quality job of its developers to create a highly configurable calendar manager with a minimum of unneeded baggage. Read the complete story on dot.kde.org - got the dot?

 

KDE 3.2.1 is released, including KOrganizer 3.2.1

March 9, 2004: The KDE project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.1, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.2.1 ships with lot of bug fixes since KDE 3.2 and is available in 49 languages (now including Bengali, Icelandic, Japanese, Lithuanian, Low Saxon, Latin Serbian and Tajik). Sources and contributed packages are linked on the KDE 3.2.1 info page.

 

New hot stuff: Public Holidays Greece

March 8, 2004: Hans Jakob Kleiner contributed a new calendar file to our hotstuff series: Public Holidays Greece (2004 - 2010). Thank you, Hans.

 

KDE 3.2 was released, including KOrganizer 3.2

February 3, 2004: KDE Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of KDE 3.2, the third major release of the award-winning KDE3 desktop platform. KDE 3.2 is the result of a combined year-long effort by hundreds of individuals and corporations from around the globe. This diverse team has been working successfully together since 1997 to make KDE the leading Open Source desktop software for Linux and UNIX. Read the complete announcement on the KDE.org webpage.

New in KOrganizer 3.2:

• File backend which automatically stores all changes and supports external changes of the data (Cornelius Schumacher)
• Allow moving of events that span several days (Reinhold Kainhofer)
• Full support for arbitrary week start days (as configured in the control center) (Reinhold Kainhofer)
• Configurable printing (Reinhold Kainhofer)
• Dialog to import calendars as resources, e.g. for subscribing to webcal URLs. (Cornelius Schumacher)
• Quick event generation in agenda view (type-ahead). (Cornelius Schumacher)
• Remote calendars (caching) (Cornelius Schumacher)
• Support drag and drop of todos to event views. (Cornelius Schumacher, Reinhold Kainhofer)
• Locking of calendar files. (Cornelius Schumacher)
• Incidence attachements. (Cornelius Schumacher)
• Kontact integration. (Cornelius Schumacher, Don Sanders)

Please also note our info page What's new in KOrganizer 3.2? and have fun with KOrganizer 3.2! :-)

 

theKompany.com Releases Version 1.0.2 of Aethera PIM/Email/Communication suite for Linux and Windows

January 31, 2004: theKompany.com is pleased to announce the 1.0 release of Aethera, a PIM, Email and optional communication suite for Linux and Windows (Mac OS X coming soon). Aethera breaks with tradition in conventional PIMs and brings a new level of modularity and vision to a paradigm that has been all too stagnant for years now. With Aethera you aren't tied to a particular operating system or desktop technology. In addition to email, calendar, contact list, sticky notes and groupware capability with Kolab, you also have optional plugins for Jabber instant messaging, Whiteboarding, VoIP. PDA synchronization and CRM available in the coming months.

Through our multi-platform component technology we are providing our calendaring support on both Linux and Windows using the popular KOrganizer application from KDE. A big item in this release is groupware capability via the KDE Kolab server. Read more about the highlights of Aethera on the website of theKompany.com.

 

KOrganizer/Platform-independent (Ko/Pi) available

January 22, 2004: Lutz Rogowski started development of "Ko/PI", KOrganizer/Platform-independent which is based on KOrganizer/Embedded 1.08beta. Learn more about the new Korganizer version on our KO/Pi page.

 

What's new in KOrganizer 3.2?

January 22, 2004: Curious what the upcoming release of KOrganizer will bring to your screen? So have a look at our news page "What's new in 3.2?"

 

German version of KOrganizer workshop: Exchange Plugin

January 17, 2004: Thanks to Matthias Schulz, our KOrganizer workshop "Exchange Plugin" is also available in German now. Good work, Matthias :-)

 

New hot stuff: Schulferien Bayern 2004

January 17, 2004: Monika Cisch contributed a new calendar file to our hotstuff series: Schulferien Bayern (Germany) 2004. Thank you, Monika.

 

KDEPIM 3.3 release plan

January 17, 2004: On January 4, 2004, Cornelius Schumacher published the KDEPIM 3.3 release plan. "This is the plan for the release of KDEPIM 3.3. It will be the first release of the kdepim module independent of the rest of KDE. The main goal is to deliver the features which were almost ready for 3.2 but finally didn't make it into the KDE 3.2 release." You find the complete release plan on the website developer.kde.org.

 

dot.kde.org: Second Osnabrück Meeting Boosts PIM Development

January 13, 2004: Daniel Molkentin wrote on the dot: "Last year in January, Intevation invited the KDE PIM team to a meeting for a hackfest to their offices at Osnabrück. This was such a great success, that everyone was glad Intevation invited the PIM team a second time exactly one year later to polish and fix up Kontact and its components for the upcoming KDE 3.2 release. Last year the big decision was to make KolabClient the successor to Kontact. This year the plan was to make a a roadmap for future KDE-PIM Development. The developers took the opportunity to discuss complicated issues in detail and sit together for brainstorming or in order to fight evil bugs." Read the complete story on the dot - got the dot?

 

Report: KDEPIM Meeting at Osnabrück 2004

January 12, 2004: From January 2rd to 5th 2004, KDE-PIM developers met in Osnabrück (Germany) again to discuss about and hack on the KDE-PIM application family. More details are available here.

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