Hello everyone, Back in 2018, the Plasma Mobile ecosystem consisted of just a handful of apps. After a short discussion with Bhushan, I stepped forward to work on Calindori, the calendar application for Plasma Mobile.
Calindori is written in QML/C++, it is based on Kirigami and (tries to) follow the KDE HIG. As a Kirigami based application, it can also run on desktop. In particular, some desktop specific bits have also been added to improve the desktop UI/UX. You can find more details here [1] During Akademy 2019 in Milan, Nicolas Fella suggested that a plugin system is created [2] that would make Calindori (or any other application that uses KCalendarCore) support various calendar backends. So, I have been maintaining Calindori trying to fulfill these requirements: 1. Offer a mobile application, and try to leverage Kirigami convergence capabilities to improve the desktop experience 2. Support calendars that follow the iCalendar [3] standard using KCalendarCore [4] 3. Avoid to tightly couple the application with a specific calendar backend (e.g Akonadi, Sink, etc) 4. Adopt the plugin based approach for multiple calendars and online synchronization support [5] Let me now share my thoughts on the the "Plasma Mobile - Calendar" [6] Google SOC project (you can track its progress here [7]). People in the free software ecosystem are free to work on any project they feel like. Certainly, the Google SOC mentor(s) may have a plan that is not compatible with Calindori. However, I started Calindori in order to enhance the Plasma Mobile ecosystem and have been trying hard to maintain it over my limited volunteer contributor time. I am not interested in entering in competition with anyone within the Plasma Mobile team and the KDE community in general. With all this in mind, if the Plasma Mobile team is not happy with the approach of a Plasma Mobile calendar mentioned above and/or my work in general, and they would like to adopt the Google SOC project approach, I can step down as Calindori maintainer. Then, the Google SOC mentor(s) could take over maintenance and merge their work with Calindori or just continue with a separate application. [1] https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/calindori [2] https://phabricator.kde.org/D24443 [3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545 [4] https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kcalendarcore/html/index.html [5] https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/calindori/-/merge_requests/37 [6] https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2021/Ideas [7] https://claudiocambra.com/2021/06/14/first-week-of-google-summer-of-code-2021/ All the best, -- Dimitris https://dimitris.cc
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