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version 3.3 pre
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http://korganizer.kde.org
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Next release: KDEPIM-3.3 (something like May 2004)
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QUICK NOTES ON WHAT'S NEW IN THE DIFFERENT VERSIONS:
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* Official 3.2 release (January 2004)
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- New Features:
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- Support for multiple calendars and todo lists. Korganizer can now
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transparently merge calendar data from different files or other calendar
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data sources for example calendars on the web. They can conveniently
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activated, deactivated, added and removed from the graphical user
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interface.
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- Kontact integration. KOrganizer now is fully integrated with Kontact, the
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complete KDE personal information management application. Within Kontact
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some additional features are available like conversion of mails to events
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or todos by drag and drop.
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- New storage model: The notion of an active calendar was replaced by a
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persistant calendar. The user doesn't have to take care of loading or
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saving the calendar. Changes are immediately saved to disk. If the
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calendar is changed externally it is automatically loaded and updated in
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the view. A locking mechansim handles concurrent access to the calendar.
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- Undo and Redo. KOrganizer now supports unlimited undo and redo.
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- Todo integration with agenda view. Todos are shown in the week and day
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views. Todos can be converted to events by dragging from the todo list and
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dropping on the agenda view.
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- Attachements for events and todos. References to web pages, local files or
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mails can be attached to events and todos. The attached data can easily be
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accessed by a single click from the event and todo views as well as the
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summary view or the editors.
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- Quick todo entry. A special input field allows to quickly create a todo
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without needing to open an editor. This is especially handy for creating
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multiple todos in a row.
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- Quick event entry. There are several new ways to create events from the
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agenda view: Per type-ahead events can be created by selecting a time
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range and then simply starting to type. An editor will be opened and the
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type text will be go into the summary input line. Optionally the event
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editor can be opened when the time selection is finished and in addition
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to the usual menu and toolbar entries there are key bindings and a context
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menu to start the editor dialog.
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- Plugin for Jewish calendar dates. When enabled this plugin shows the
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Jewish calendar dates for each day in the calendar view.
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- Improved print support. The print dialogs were rewritten. Printing now
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supports colors and overlapping events.
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- User interface polishing. The visual appearance of KOrganizer was improved
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by a rewrite of the agenda view rendering and other enhancements like the
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text fade-out when there isn't enough space to display the full text or the
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graphical display of the completion state of todos. Many usability
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improvements were incoreporated, like support for moving multi-day events in
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the agenda view by dragging with the mouse, more complete and consistent key
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bindings and context menus, better menu structure and more concise texts.
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Some of these improvements were stimulated by external usability studies.
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- Bug fixes. Countless bug fixes went into this version, one of them being a
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fix for the session management which closes the, according to Bugzilla, most
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hated bug of KOrganizer 3.1.
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- Better performance. The speed of calendar loading and saving was
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significantly improved and memory consumption of calendars was decreased.
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- Architecture and framework:
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- KOrganizer makes use of the KDE resource framework KResources which
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provides uniform management of calendar, addressbook and similar
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resources including generic ways to handle locking and change
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notification. This also provides a plugin interface for adding resources
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which makes it possible to easily extend Korganizer for example to access
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groupware servers or other ways to store calendar data.
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- KOrganizer configuration is now based on KConfig XT. That means that
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there is an abstract XML based description of the configuration which is
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used for generating the needed code to access the configuration data and
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serves as base for external configuration tools.
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- Simplification of alarm daemon. KOrganizer doesn't use kalarmd anymore,
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it only needs the korgac daemon which also rpovides the system tray icon
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for being able to notify about alarms. Run control of the alarm daemon
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also was simplified, it's now all done by the context menu of the system
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tray icon and doesn't need the control center anymore.
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- The configuration dialog is now based on kcontrol modules. This is a
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prerequisite for integrating the configuration within Kontact.
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- KMail now directly supports transfer of invitations and other calendar
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attachments to KOrganizer. This supercedes the korganizerIn script
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solution.
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- Accessing the calendar from the command line is now exclusively handled
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by a native command line application, konsolekalendar.
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* Official 3.1 release (January 2003)
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- General:
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- User-definable templates for events and todos.
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- Alarms for todos.
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- Automatic HTML export on save of calendar file.
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- Time table print view.
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- New "location" attribute for events.
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- Experimental "Get Hot New Stuff" button for downloading and uploading
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calendar files of common interest.
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- Views:
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- New "Next 3 days" view.
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- Selection of time span for a new event in day and week views.
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- Direct manipulation of priority, completion status and categories of todos
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by context menus.
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- Deletion of individual instances of recurring events.
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- Rewritten month view.
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- Coloring of events in month view based on categories.
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- Coloring of due and overdue todos.
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- Improved "What's Next" view.
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- Configurable cell height in week and day views
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- Group scheduling:
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- iMIP group scheduling functions for todos.
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- Publishing of Free/Busy information by iMIP conformant email.
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- Improved automatisation of group scheduling.
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- Interoperability and integration
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- Support for "webcal" URLs in Konqueror.
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- Support for iCalendar based drag&drop.
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- KOrganizer now shares the dialogs for categories with KAddressBook.
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- Improved iCalendar conformance.
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- Improved right-to-left languages support.
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- Bug fixes for non-latin1 encodings.
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- Plugins:
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- New plugin for importing birthdays from The KDE address book.
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- New plugin for accessing calendar data on an Exchange server.
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* Official 3.0.3 release (August 2002)
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- Fixed problem caused by Qt 3.0.5 that made context menus in todo and list
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view inaccessible.
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* Official 3.0.2 release (June 2002)
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- Bug fixes
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- Respect secrecy setting in HTML export also in non-english languages.
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- Insert page breaks in todo printouts when necessary.
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* Official 3.0.1 release (May 2002)
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- Lots of bug fixes including fixes to two major bugs:
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- Fixed time shift problem which occurred sometimes when saving a calendar.
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- Fixed memory leaks in loading and saving the calendar
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* Official 3.0 release (March 2002)
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- Bug fixes
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* Beta Release 3.0beta2 (Februrary 2002)
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- More group scheduling fixes
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- Other bug fixes
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* Beta Release 3.0beta1 (December 2001)
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- Group scheduling fixes
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* Alpha Release 3.0alpha1 (October 2001)
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- Group scheduling
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- Plugin interface
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- Marcus Bain line
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- Full port to Qt3/KDE3
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- Major code cleanup
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* Official 2.2 release (August 2001)
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- Bug fixes
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* Beta Release 2.2beta1 (June 2001)
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- Drag&Drop of attendees from kaddressbook to korganizer
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* Alpha Release 2.2alpha2 (May 2001)
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- Active remote calendar
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- Sending events via KMail
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- Tip of the Day
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- "Percent completed" setting for todos
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- Bug fixes
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* Alpha 1 release of version 2.2 (April 2001)
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This release is mainly to try out some new technologies and get some
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feedback after major reorganisation of the code.
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What's new:
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- Switch to iCalendar as default file format
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- "What's next" view
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- Journal feature
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- Project view
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- HTML export of month view
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* Official 2.1 release (February 2001)
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- Highlighting of working hours
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- Todo and Month View can now use the full window
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- ScrollBars of month view cells can now be turned off
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- Better support for non-ascii charsets
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* Official 2.0 release (October 2000)
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- No more bugs to fix (sigh, I'm dreaming)
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* Beta-Release 1.94 (September 2000)
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- Even more bug fixes
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* Beta-Release 1.93 (August 2000)
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- More bug fixes
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* Beta-Release 1.92 (July 2000)
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- A couple of bug fixes
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* Beta-Release 1.91 (June 2000)
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- Full integration in KDE 2 framework
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- Improved Todo-View (hierarchical todos, drag and drop, ...)
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- Web Page Export
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- Improved Agenda View (colored events, parallel events, ...)
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- Many, many other improvements and bug fixes
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* Official 1.0 release (February 1999)
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INTRODUCTION:
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KOrganizer aims to be a complete program for organizing your
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appointments, contacts, projects, etc. It is in the same spirit as
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similar programs like the now ubiquitous Microsoft Outlook, Starfish
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Internet Sidekick, Time & Chaos, etc. (all for the Microsoft Windows
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platform, of course.) Best of all, It reads and writes the vCalendar
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file format NATIVELY (please see http://www.imc.org/pdi for more
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information), which is now an industry-wide personal data interchange
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format. Because of this, you should be able to move from other modern
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PIMs to KOrganizer with relative ease. Current users of the popular
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program ical should definitely take a look at KOrganizer and compare
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features.
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KOrganizer also offers full synchronization with your Palm Pilot, if you
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have kpilot installed.
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To install KOrganizer, please read the file INSTALL. The process is
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analogous to other KDE applications.
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Documentation is available online from the Help->Contents menu option.
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While it is not complete and has not been updated in several months,
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it is at least partially helpful. Anyone wishing to help on completing
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or enhancing the documentation should contact me directly at the email
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address given at the end of this document.
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BUGS:
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Bugs can be reported to the KDE bug tracking system (http://bugs.kde.org).
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There you can also get information about the status of older bugs.
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KOrganizer, as most other KDE 2 programs, offers a menu item "Report Bug"
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in the Help menu for convenient reporting of bugs or feature requests.
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NEWS and TODO:
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Have a look at the KOrganizer homepage (http://korganizer.kde.org).
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There you find news and a todo list for future KOrganizer development (of
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course generated with KOrganizer itself).
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CONTACT INFORMATION:
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We want your suggestions and comments!
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Please mail them to the maintainer of KOrganizer:
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Cornelius Schumacher (schumacher@kde.org)
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I always welcome contributions and new members for the team.
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