Messages

I started working on support for the facebook message system. Which turned out to be easy enough to do. And the messages branch in git should just give you a nice list of messages to read! There is a lot of room for improvement with respect to syncing the messages or maybe even replying to the messages. One of the awesome things that is in there right now is the automatic threading by kmail, which is just a simple matter of setting a the right reference and all is done automagically.

Right now there we first want to get out a 0.1 release before we will merge the message branch. So a little patience (or checkout the message branch).

Polishing

Since Thomas and I decided we would like to release a 0.1 version as quickly as possible we started to work on getting the code in decent shape. Which basically means documenting, code refactoring etc. Not always the most exciting work but the code today is already is much better shape (and much easier to understand/extend) than it was last weekend. Which should make fixing bugs and adding/extending features a lot easier!

As a result of this we now also have our own api reference. Now the refactoring process is not yet finished but already we can see nice graphs there. Also the awesome KDE look really motivated me to document more since it will look so cool afterwards!

What is next?

So hopefully we will finish with the polishing and the remaining 0.1 items on the TODO soon so we can make a release. And after that we will continue to try to add more cool features of course!

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!

So Distcc is running on it again so compiletimes should be lower now. Further more I’m planing on putting out my old Monitor again. Since I won’t be taking the laptop with me I figured I’d give it a nice place on my desk. But then again. Why not hook up the old monitor. Ah well All things aside. It is going to be a huge screen

Further more I’m planning on compiling multiple desktop enviorments. Ofcourse KDE. But I also want to try out KDE4. So I think i’ll be checking out the svn repo very soon And well who know. Maybe i’ll even try some other

Ah well that is it for now. It will propbaly take some time to get this done since well the laptop is over at my folks house and the largest part of the week I’m in Amsterdam.. But we’ll how things go

Now the first thing i wanted was hardware acceleration. However it seems my Ati Xpress 200M is not well supported by the opensource drivers. Now I hear you think why not switch to the propiotry drivers? Well because then I need to compile gcc-3. I mean what is that about. So I will stay with the opensource drivers and wait till hardware acceleration is fully supported. Wich I believe won’t take to long because the Xpress 200M is shipped in a lot of laptops these days.

So I spend today to compile X and KDE. Which well went very smooth. Currently it I’m writing this from a fresh compiled konqueror. Kmail is done. Akregator. So the basics for my daily needs (I already compiled VI). I now also boot from kdm. I figured that I start X for 99% of the times. And altough it looks much cooler to be outside X when you are on te terras drinking a beer this is actually more confortable.

Speaking of comfort. I also compiled knetworkmanger. To arrange all my network stuf from inside kde. I must say it works great. I could connect to my WPA2 network with 2 clicks.

So far so good. Lets hope it stays that way.