KTp/libkpeople

About

LibKPeople is a contact aggregation library for KDE.

It is *not* a KTp specific library, we are simply the first adopters as well as the developers so the wiki page is here for the time being. This page is about the libkpeople changes needed to make a release of KTp with libkpeople support.

Big discussions about libkpeople should CC the pim mailing list.

Setting up

Install libkpeople (https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/network/kpeople)

Reinstall KTp, and you have metacontacts everywhere.

You may also want to install PersonViewer a tool to view all contact information from all sources (http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=person-viewer.git)

Tasks

libkpeople

Status	Summary	Notes	Claimed By
DONE	Add KPeople namespace	3 votes to 1 on kpeople vs people	[mailto: David < David >]
DONE	Update Roles as per discussion		[mailto:MCK182 <MCK182 >]
DONE	Restore updates on presence change	https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110801/	[mailto:Dave <Dave >]
DONE	Remove unused / commented out code		[mailto:Dave <Dave >]
DONE	Add dialog for finding duplicates		[mailto:franck <franck >]
DONE	Add Dialog to view PersonData	(see PersonViewer) in mck182 scratch	[mailto:[email protected] <[email protected] >]
IN PROGRESS	Add widget to PersonViewer to view associated websites
TODO	Port away from QStandardItemModel	It's slow and won't be accepted by PIM. PersonItem and ContactItem are fine, we just need to just not inherit from QStandardItem and do model stuff ourselves (apparently)
DONE	Rename examples		[mailto: Aleix Pol < Aleix Pol >]
IN PROGRESS	Fix tests	PersonData 80% done. PersonsModel to do	[mailto:[email protected] <[email protected] >]
DONE	Cache sub-resources in PersonsData	Vishesh to implement in Nepomuk Core	[mailto: vhanda < vhanda >]

PIM Demos

Status	Summary	Notes	Claimed By

KTp Stuff

Status	Summary	Notes	Claimed By
DONE	Move KTp plugins to k-ci-i
DONE	Add method to KTp::ContactsModel runtime switch from libkpeople or not.
TODO	Add PersonData method to KTp::Contact
TODO	KTp Contact has helper methods to get name + avatar for person
TODO	KTp ContactFactory can get personData as a feature on load, otherwise use Tp stuff.
TODO	Fix the singleton AccountManager problem	I don't know how many times I've shouted at people about the problem with using AM as a singleton.. and now we've done it in libkpeople. Brilliant.
DONE	Restore Grouping		[mailto:David <David >]

Public API Review

Below are a list of issues, please resolve (either by fixing or discussing) then remove from this list

The list of public classes are:

• PersonsModel
• PersonsModelFeature
• AbstractPersonsPlugin
• BasePersonsDataSource
• DuplicatesFinder
• Match
• MatchesSolver
• PersonActionsModel
• PersonsPluginManager
• PersonData

Anything else in the main lib is private and thus I don't care.

PersonsModel

Why is addContactsToPerson async but removeContactsFromPerson syncronous?

I /think/ if you call removeContactsFromPerson that contact is now not in the model, not inserted as a contact anywhere.

Testing

See git://anongit.kde.org/scratch/mklapetek/PersonViewer for a generic "new addressbook" KTp has kpeople support merged as an optional dependency

git://anongit.kde.org/scratch/vhanda/delete-pimo-people.git is a useful too for wiping all PIMO:Persons useful for testing merging repeatedly.