kfacebook
by rullzer on Mar.11, 2011, under KDE
First of all: Hello Planet KDE!
Last week I read the post by Thomas about Facebook support in KDEPIM. Which is of course awesome to have and is something that has been on my TODO list for some time now. And well since Thomas started it all it is a great way for me to get involved in KDE and to learn how to deal with akonadi.
All my work (be it in separate branches) is already available in the project repository. Thomas will probably try to merge them this weekend but you can of course already check them out for all the new cool stuff.
What did I work on
Notes
I started working on note support, so have your notes on facebook available in akonadi and thus in KJots. And this all works out very nice. One of the side effects is that in facebook you can have images in your notes which is not properly supported in KJots.
After retrieving notes I figured it would be awesome to be able to add, delete and modify notes. Adding a new note or deleting a note turned out to be easy to do, however as far as I know facebook does not allow you (yet?) to modify notes trough the Graph API. Which is to bad since that would make notes support complete.
Event participants
We now have a list of participants attached to events. Also the status of the participant is set correctly (attending, declined etc). Which of course is cool to have. Right now events are still read-only but the API actually allows for setting your RSVP status etc so it would only be “logical” to have support for setting that.
Parallel photo fetch
Up until now all the friends were retrieved and then after that all the photo’s were downloaded one after the other. A simple patch now fires them all off and just waits for them to complete. Which is a lot faster, especially if you have a lot of facebook friends!
Upcoming stuff
There is room for some refactoring which would get rid of some duplicated code and would make extending KFacebook even easier. So I guess that needs to be done first.
Other than that I planet to start working on getting your facebook messages into Akonadi. First only as read-only but hopefully we can soon extend that. Other than that there is more than enough work to do in order to get out a 0.1 release 
And now on to some more coding!
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March 12th, 2011 on 3:24 am
In KDE Telepathy we make it really easy for a user to setup their facebook account and use it for instant messaging (Facebook chat).
When this hits your desktop you’ll have a truly fantastic Facebook experience at your desktop.
Maybe we can work together on designing something so you only need to set your username/password in one place?
March 12th, 2011 on 9:51 am
@David: That sounds awesome could you join us on irc? (#akonadi) or send a mail to kde-pim@kde.org? Since having only to setup stuff once will be a better user experience!
March 12th, 2011 on 10:44 am
I’m just writing this to say thanks for doing such an amazing thing and building this! (Eventhough I haven’t actually tried it yet).
I believe that KDE should be very tightly integrated to social networking sites and tried to work on kfacebook myself when I saw it. (But alas, I couldn’t make head or tail of the code – possibly due to my inexperience with Qt/KDE).
And David, we should probably have some sort of wizard that sets up everything that’s related to facebook in one go.
March 13th, 2011 on 9:09 am
Thank you for your work.
Can you fix a little typo in /resource/facebookresource.cpp:147?
cancelTask( i18n( “Unable to syncronize this collection.” ) );
Should be
cancelTask( i18n( “Unable to synchronize this collection.” ) );
March 14th, 2011 on 9:25 pm
@Yuri, thanks for spotting the typo, I have committed a fix which I’ll push soonish.
@Lasath, @David: Yes, we were already thinking about such a wizard, Sebastian Kügler has started a wizard for things like Twitter already, a good idea would be to extend that to add support for Facebook (Akonadi Resource, Telepathy/Kopete)
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Your facebook address ??? can i add you ?
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