GSoC/2021/StatusReports/ClauCambra

Plasma Mobile - Akonadi Calendar

• GSoC Project Link
• Kalendar repository

While KDE Plasma on the desktop has robust calendar, tasks and journal management capabilities thanks to KOrganizer, Plasma Mobile currently lacks such capabilities. Existing applications are hampered by an absence of Akonadi integration, which would allow users to synchronise their data across applications in Plasma.

The reason for this is that there is currently no existing Kirigami/QML implementation of a calendar view component that integrates with Akonadi. Carl Schwan recently began developing a proof-of-concept Kirigami ‘Kalendar’ application that supports a detailed month view and works with Akonadi calendars, but that is currently a work-in-progress project.

This proposal puts forward a plan for improvements to this existing proof of concept that would help implement a fully-featured convergent calendar application for Plasma Mobile. This application would allow the user to view, create, modify, and delete calendar events with full Akonadi integration. This will be made possible by creating components written in QML and Kirigami that should allow for the creation of a visually-attractive and intuitive calendar view components that could be used in any Kirigami application.

Progress reports

• First week of Google Summer of Code 2021
• Week 2 on Kalendar (GSoC 2021)
• Figuring out recurrence (and bugs…) in Kalendar’s week 3 (GSoC 2021)
• Editing and deleting mistakes… and events too — Kalendar week 4 (GSoC 2021)
• An eventful week — Kalendar week 5 (GSoC 2021)

Merge requests

• !2: Add event editor to Kalendar
• !3: Adding an AttendeesModel and RemindersModel for Event editing
• !4: Adding support for event recurrence
• !5: Add event editing and deleting capabilities, new event information drawer, major bugfixes
• !6: Update repository README and relevant screenshot
• !8: Improved event info drawer, event collection editing, attachments
• !9: Undo/Redo functionality
• !10: Add a schedule view to Kalendar
• !11: Improve appearance of event editor components
• !12: Add support for more incidence types
• !13: Add a contact picker for easy attendee addition
• !14: Improve month view and schedule view visually
• !15: Add opt-in location maps to Kalendar
• !17: Collection of fixes for bugs and visual tweaks throughout Kalendar
• !18: Add customisation options to Kalendar
• !19: Unify date and time combos and fix their editing issues
• !20: Add a specialised todo view to Kalendar