** 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 ü).
* 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.