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by me on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @15:09

I'm really happy to see work being put into KOrganizer. Its quite a useful piece of software, the calendar-presentation has just been very very ugly for a long time. Just look at how iCal or Outlook draw a calendars, its much clearer and visually more appealing.

Finally some great dude starts to hack on this, and what does he come up with? "Picture of the Day" and "This Day in History" plugins. I personally find that to be utterly useless. I can already see my mom and our company's secretary asking "why is there a taiwanese aborigine on top of my monday?". I would be unable to explain.

Now I see that I'm complaining about the work someone else does for free. And that sucks. So, I hereby rephrase this comment to:

I am surprised by the way you set your priorities, but hey, have fun!

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Re: korganzier
by zonk on Sunday 03/Jun/2007, @16:51

Actually, most people here program for fun. And what is more funny than seeing some secretary asking "why is there a taiwanese aborigine on top of my monday?" :))))).

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Re: korganzier
by Joergen Ramskov on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @02:49

Yeah, because what you find to be utterly useless is exactly what everyone else thinks too. I'm sure the developer was thinking exactly that when he developed these plugins.

Seriously, your complaints are stupid. I could easily imagine that these plugins would be disabled by default or otherwise they will be easy to disable.

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Re: korganzier
by André on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @03:55

As you are probably well aware, people tend to work on stuff they like, they find interesting and they dare to take on. Why not look at this effort as a way to get aquinted with the KOrganizer code base, and that could potentially lead to input in other - perhaps in your eyes more usefull - areas? I know I started working on a KDE program in much the same way: try your hand at a small item, and end up working all over the codebase.

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Re: korganzier
by Ian on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @06:19

"Picture of the Day" and "This Day in History" plugins. I personally find that to be utterly useless."

I think its a good idea if there is enough screen real estate for it.

That could possibly be replaced with corporate information such as the "positive mantra of the day" or "here is a pic of the IT Support guy who you'd like to kick" or "today is the day you should ......"

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Re: korganzier
by Jonathan on Monday 04/Jun/2007, @07:06

I like the idea. You might even be able to show them on your desktop using plasmoids, which would be funny.

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Re: korganzier
by Loïc Corbasson on Tuesday 05/Jun/2007, @11:06

I'm the guy doing utterly useless work :)

I'm working on this for a Summer of Code project, whose goal is to improve KOrganizer's theme support and write some example plugins (see http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2007/Projects/KOrganizer_theming_improvements); you'll get more info on this on my blog: http://blog.loic.corbasson.fr/

Now, on the "ugliness" of the calendar, I do not share your opinion: while certainly not perfect, I think KOrganizer does a quite good job. Could you please elaborate on the precise things you'd like to see improved? I do not have much time (in France, the spring semester ends in the end of June, so now is projects' ending and finals' preparation time), and no Outlook or Mac handy, so this would help me grasp what you mean. Even though it's outside the scope of what I have to do for Summer of Code, I'll have a look at what I could improve when working on the CalendarTheme interface in July if it's really that ugly :)

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Re: korganzier
by superstoned on Saturday 09/Jun/2007, @03:18

Imho, the calendar looks fine, but I don't know any better either. I DO know the MS outlook one is nothing better. Maybe some gradients or something, smooth, rounded corners... Sounds doable with Qt4/KDE4.

BTW I applaud your offer to work on this! I think the parent really should answer your questions. And nice work, I DO like the plugins a lot ;-)

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