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kdepimlibs Epic

Status

Status as at 20 Nov 2013.

  • Akonadi supports Qt 5 since release 1.11
  • All kdepim has CMake automoc
  • Stephen Kelly has been doing clean-up tasks in master (see gitk --author=steveire)
  • Stephen Kelly has a frameworks branch on his clone which has deleted KResources and KCal and is making build fixes
  • The frameworks branch on kdepimlibs is outdated, but Stephen will merge his branch in due course
  • Maintainers are requested to fill in the Code Units grid below

Planning

At the KDE PIM sprint the following plan was discussed on the assumption that no work had been started yet, so it was better to wait until the kdelibs split had been performed:

  • Wait for the kdelibs split to be completed and the preview release to be made
  • A frameworks branch to be created in kdepimlibs
  • All obsolete libraries to be deleted
  • Qt5 / KF5 basic porting to be performed mostly by the Frameworks team (old frameworks branch to be reviewed and deleted)
  • Once work is started here no more style fixes to be applied to Master
  • Code relying on qt3support and deprecated libraries will be removed as part of the porting
  • All classes to be reviewed by key maintainers to decide if any should move elsewhere
  • Once basic porting is completed then kdepimlibs will be spilt into separate frameworks
  • Once split the maintainers of each framework will take over work to make any API and code changes required
  • PIM Frameworks will be released as and when they are ready, we do not need to release them all at the same time
  • PIM Frameworks will be prioritised depending on usage, i.e. libraries needed by KDE Workspaces and Kolab should be released first
  • kdepim-runtime will be split between PIM Framework and kdepim


Since then Stephen Kelly has advised he has already completed significant parts of the port and is recommending the following plan be followed:

  • Clean-up in Master branch
    • Port away from obsolete code
    • Includes
    • Q_SLOTS and Q_SIGNALS
    • kde4_add_library -> add_library
  • Merge to frameworks
  • Delete obsolete code from frameworks branch
  • Port to Qt5 / KF5
    • Adapt to upstream api changes, includes, cmake, etc
    • Use kde4support as required
  • Remove use of kde4support
  • Code rearranging
    • Internal library splits, merges
  • Code improvements
    • API changes
    • Refactoring
  • Coding Style fix
  • Split
  • Release

Policies

See the other Frameworks pages for the KDE Frameworks Policies, the kdelibs Split Policies and the Definition of Done .

The kdepimlibs specific policies are:

  • Modules that use qt3support are to be removed
  • Deprecated API is allowed to be removed
  • Source compatibility requirements are relaxed due to fewer clients, but major rewrites are discouraged. Instead port the old library and create a separate new library (e.g. KHolidays and QHolidays).
  • Most libraries will aim for Tier 2, but some may be able to target Tier 1.
  • The initial KF5 port may rely on kde4support to enable the port to be performed by non-experts, but no Framework released may rely on kde4support so the maintainer must remove all usage. In particular all KDateTime, KTimeZone and KLocale usage must be removed and the Qt replacements throughly tested for regressions and behaviour changes.

Priorities

The following libraries are known to be used outside of KDE PIM and so may be a higher priority in porting.

For Plasma support the decision has been made to deprecate the use of DataEngines and use QML includes instead.

Priority items:

  • Akonadi
  • KABC
  • KCalCore
  • KMime
  • KHolidays
  • QGpgme
  • KXMLRPCClient
  • + other Kolab libs

kde-workspace

Usage:

  • kde-workspace/libs/plasmaclock/
    • KHolidays (for selection widget, could be moved elsewhere?)
    • CalendarEngine
  • kde-workspace/plasma/generic/dataengines/akonadi/
    • Akonadi
    • KMime
    • KABC
    • Microblog
    • KPimUtils (linked but not included?)
    • AkonadiEngine not used anywhere
  • kde-workspace/plasma/generic/dataengines/calendar/
    • Akonadi
    • KCalCore
    • KCalUtils
    • KHolidays
    • CalendarEngine only used in kde-workspace/libs/plasmaclock/
  • kde-workspace/plasma/generic/dataengines/rss/
    • Syndication


Note: It is recommended that the Akonadi DataEngine be reworked/renamed as EMailEngine, ToDoEngine, etc, as this is client developer facing API and so the implementation name should be abstracted/hidden from them, i.e. as is done with the CalendarEngine.

kde-runtime

Usage:

  • kde-runtime/drkonqi/
    • KXMLRPCClient
  • kde-runtime/kwalletd
    • QGpgme

kdeplasma-addons

Usages:

  • kdeplasma-addons/libs/lancelot-datamodel
    • Akonadi - for email support
  • kdeplasma-addons/runners/contacts
    • Akonadi
    • KABC
  • kdeplasma-addons/runners/events
    • Akonadi
    • KCalCore
  • kdeplasma-addons/applets/news/
    • RssEngine
  • kdeplasma-addons/applets/rssnow/
    • RssEngine


Runners could be converted to either use KPeople, or to use the QML includes? Or the DataEngines?

Kolab

WIP. Basically most of the lower-level libraries and all of kdelibs!

  • KIMAP
  • KABC
  • KCalCore
  • KMime

Code Units

The following is a high-level list of the different Code Units in kdepimlibs and kdepim-runtime. A Unit may be a library or other software artefact that is to be considered as a stand-alone unit of code.

Initial listing of top-level directories and the README and MAINTAINERS files. If subdirectories need breaking out separately then please add to list.

Note that the status listed in this table is solely whether the information required has been completed, not that theport has been completed.

kdepimlibs

Status Unit Description Maintainer Dependencies External Usage
TODO akonadi Client access library for using the Akonadi PIM data server. Dan Vratil
TODO akonadi/calendar Calendar-specific Akonadi client library many...
TODO akonadi/contacts Contact-specific Akonadi client library kabc, kcalcore, kmime, pimutils, akonadi, kio, kdeui, nepomuk
TODO akonadi/kabc what's the difference to the above? kabc, akonadi, kdecore
TODO akonadi/kcal KCal-specific Akonadi client library (deprecated?)
TODO akonadi/kmime Mail-specific Akonadi client library kmime, akonadi, kdecore, kdeui, kio
TODO akonadi/notes Notes-specific Akonadi client library akonadi, kmime
TODO akonadi/socialutils Social media Akonadi client library akonadi, kio, qjson
TODO cmake
TODO docs
TODO gpgme++ C++ API for libgpgme Marc Mutz no Qt/KDE
TODO includes Camel case forwarding headers
TODO kabc Tobias koenig
TODO kalarmcal David Jarvie KCalCore, KHolidays, Akonadi, KLocale, KTimeZone, Ki18n, KDebug, KPimIdentities, KMessageBox, KDateTime, KConfig
TODO kblog C++ API for weblogging access Christian Weilbach KDebug, KDateTime, KTimeZone, KXmlRpcClient, KIO, KCal, Ki18n, KStandardDirs
TODO kcal C++ API for the iCalendar and vCalendar formats (Deprecated by kcalcore and kcalutils) Sergio Martins, Allen Winter to be removed
TODO kcalcore C++ API for the iCalendar and vCalendar formats Sergio Martins, Allen Winter KDebug, KDateTime, KTimeZone, KCodecs, KRandom, KConfig, K[Temp,Save]File, KMimeType, KStandardDirs, KApp/KCD/KCmdLine (tests only)
TODO kcalutils C++ library containing utility functions on top of kcalcore. Sergio Martins, Allen Winter kcalcore, kpimidentities, ki18n, kpimutils, KDialog, KDebug, KMimeType, KTimeZone, KDateTime, KCalendarSystem, KIconLoader, KMessageBox, KLocale
DONE kholidays C++ library for calendar holidays John Layt, Allen Winter kdeui, kio ( KComboBox, KStandardDirs, KCalendarSystem, KLocale, KLocalizedString) Plasma, KMyMoney
TODO kimap C++ API for IMAP support Christian Mollekopf KMime, KDebug, K1i8n, KTcpSocket, KIO/SSL, KJob, KCD/KAboutData (tests only)
TODO kioslaves/imap4 imap4 kioslave to be removed
TODO kioslaves/ldap ldap kioslave
TODO kioslaves/mbox mbox kioslave
TODO kioslaves/nntp nntp kioslave
TODO kioslaves/pop3 pop3 kioslave
TODO kioslaves/sieve Sieve kioslave Ki18n, KIO, KDebug, KMessageBox, SASL2
TODO kioslaves/smtp smtp kioslave Ki18n, KIO, KDebug, KCD, SASL2, KEmailSettings
TODO kldap C++ API for LDAP access Szombathelyi György KDebug, Ki18n, KProgressDialog, KLineEdit, KMessageBox, KComboBox
TODO kmbox Bertjan Broeksema KMime, KStandardDirs, KDebug, KTempDir (tests only)
TODO kmime C++ API for MIME handling Volker Krause, Marc Mutz KCharsets, KLocale, KDateTime, KCalendarSystem, KDebug, KAscii, kpimutils (header-only), KCD (tests only), Ki18n
TODO kontactinterface The glue for embedding KParts into Kontact Allen Winter KPlugin, KXmlGui, some K widgets, KDialog, KPimUtils, K[Unique]Applications/KCmdLineArgs, KWindowSystem, KParts, KAboutData, KCD, KStandardDirs, KRun, KDebug, KGlobalSettings, KIcon*, KStartupInfo, KLocale
TODO kpimidentities C++ API for shared identities for mail applications KPimUtils, KEmailSettings, KConfig*, KUser, KRandom, Ki18n, various K* widgets, KDebug, KProcess, KMessagebox, KRichTextEdit, KIcon*, KShellCompletion, KPimTextEdit, Sonnet
TODO kpimtextedit Provides a textedit with PIM-specific features and can convert the textedit content to various markup formats Thomas McGuire, Stephen Kelly KImageIO, KFileDialog, KDialog, KAction*, KRichtextEdit, KIcon*, KCharSelect, KI18n, KStdDirs, various K widgets, KEmoticons, KMime, Sonnet, KCursor
TODO kpimutils A library for general purpose PIM utilities KMessageBox, KStdGuiItem, KI18n, KDebug, KURL, KMime (yay, cyclic dependency!), KEmoticons, KPixmapSequence
TODO kresources Tobias Koenig to be removed
TODO ktnef C++ API for the handling of TNEF data Michael Goffioul KPimUtils, KCalCore, KABC, Ki18n, KDateTime, KMimeType, KSaveFile, KDebug
TODO kxmlrpclient An XML-RPC client library KIO, KDebug, Ki18n
TODO mailtransport C++ API and support code for managing mail transport
TODO microblog A library for microblogging Tom Albers KDebug, KPimUtils
TODO qgpgme A C++ wrapper for gpgme Marc Mutz QtCore only
TODO syndication An RSS/Atom feed parser library Frank Osterfeld KIO, KCharset, KDateTime, KDebug, Kapp/Kcmdlineargs/KCD (tests only), KRandom, KProcess

kdepim-runtime

Status Unit Description Maintainer Dependencies External Usage
TODO accountwizard
TODO agents
TODO cmake
TODO defaultsetup
TODO doc
TODO kcm
TODO kioslave
TODO kresources Kevin Krammer
TODO libkdepim-copy
TODO migration
TODO opensync
TODO plugins
TODO qml
TODO resources
TODO resourcetester
TODO tray

Split Tasks

kdepimlibs Tasks

Status Framework Tier Assigned Priority Action Required
TODO akonadi merge with akonadi server?
TODO akonadi/calendar Tier 3?
TODO akonadi/contacts Tier 3?
TODO akonadi/kabc Tier 3?
TODO akonadi/kcal N/A deprecated - delete
TODO akonadi/kmime Tier 3?
TODO akonadi/notes Tier 3?
TODO akonadi/socialutils Tier 3?
TODO cmake Tier 2?
TODO doc
TODO gpgme++
TODO includes N/A distribute to splitted modules, auto-generate?
TODO kabc remove KResource dependencies
TODO kalarmcal remove optional KCal dependency
TODO kblog port to KCalCore
TODO kcal N/A To be deleted
TODO kcalcore High (Workspace)
TODO kcalutils High (Workspace)
TODO kholidays Tier 1 High (Workspace) Split as is and clean-up api. Will be replaced later by OpenHolidays. Will need internal copy of QCalendarSystem, Gui uses KComboBox. Replace KStandardDirs?
TODO kimap
TODO kioslave/imap4 N/A To be deleted
TODO kioslave/ldap
TODO kioslave/mbox
TODO kioslave/nntp
TODO kioslave/pop3
TODO kioslave/sieve
TODO kioslave/smtp
TODO kldap
TODO kmbox
TODO kmime
TODO kontactinterface
TODO kpimidentities
TODO kpimtextedit
TODO kpimutils
TODO kresources N/A delete
TODO ktnef remove KCal dependency
TODO kxmlrpcclient
TODO mailtransport
TODO microblog obsolete after microblog resource removal?
TODO qgpgme
TODO syndication

kdepim-runtime Tasks

Status Framework Tier Assigned Priority Action Required
TODO accountwizard
TODO agents
TODO cmake
TODO defaultsetup
TODO doc
TODO kcm
TODO kioslave
TODO kresources N/A to be deleted
TODO libkdepim-copy
TODO migration
TODO opensync
TODO plugins Merge with corresponding akonadi/foo frameworks?
TODO qml
TODO resources
TODO resourcetester Merge with libakonadi?
TODO tray
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