Winter updates

Phew. long time no news! It's been a busy start of winter ... on that topic a happy new year to everyone! Welcome if you're reading this for the first time on PlanetSUSE, have a look at my intro if you're curious who I am.

A few updates on what I've been working on this month at least.

libopensync-plugin-akonadi 0.22.1 released
Released an update to try and make it work better with the Google Akonadi resource (thanks ares)

Package updates on the OBS

• Packaged krazy2, the KDE code quality checker, straight from git in KDE:Unstable:Playground
• Updated get_iplayer, the BBC iPlayer download tool, in home:MasterPatricko. It now works!
• Packaged powertop2 beta, the power consumption monitor, in home:MasterPatricko; interesting improvements compared to powertop. Needs kernel 2.6.37 (i.e. Factory or Kernel:HEAD) to show off its full power, but still works in 11.3.
• Update liquidwar6, the particle simulation game, to 0.0.9beta in games
• Update maxima, the Computer Algebra system, in science to 5.23.0
  
• Update unshield, the .CAB file extractor from the SynCE project, in Archiving (and eventually Factory) to 0.6




• Fix build of denyhosts, the SSH brute-force protection tool, on x86_64




• Update redshift, the auto screen-brightness adjuster in Factory:Contrib to 0.6




• Created a package vncserver-autostart in home:MasterPatricko which adds an init script to start a tightvnc vncserver on bootup. Complete with sysconfig-style configuration. Completely insecure of course but perfect for a local network.

Started using my hard-earned openSUSE member benefits; tejas.guruswamy AT and masterpatricko AT opensuse.org are operational; got the blog syndicated on planet.opensuse.org

Plus, as always, I have a couple of new project ideas I'd like to get started on ... more on that soon. Comments welcome as always

opensync-plugin-kdepim and opensync-plugin-akonadi

Following on from my previous posts [1], [2], here is are the release announcements for the OpenSync plugins I've been working on.

opensync-plugin-kdepim
This is an OpenSync 0.22 plugin to sync with KDEPIM (pre-akonadi, so < 4.5). Using this and the OpenSync framework you can sync your KDE PIM data with mobile devices and other applications. This is ONLY compatible with OpenSync 0.22; not OpenSync 0.3x or above. This code is not guaranteed bug-free; always have a backup of your data. This plugin can sync contacts with KAddressBook, events and todos with KOrganizer, and notes with KNotes (over DBus). If you have akonadi configured this plugin will refuse to sync (you can override this in the config, see the README). IMPORTANT: Note syncing depends on you having a KDE installation where bko#251914 is fixed. This means knotes >= 4.4.7, or use the patch there to recompile.
If you can't get that to work, or if you don't need note syncing, in the patches directory of the source there is a patch that can turn off note syncing and allow it to compile.

opensync-plugin-kdepim on kde-apps.org
libopensync-plugin-kdepim-0.22.tar.bz2 source tarball on the OBS

opensync-plugin-akonadi
This is an OpenSync 0.22 plugin to sync with KDEPIM with akonadi, so > 4.4).
Using this and the OpenSync framework you can sync your KDE PIM data with mobile devices and other applications.
This is ONLY compatible with OpenSync 0.22; not OpenSync 0.3x or above.
This code is not guaranteed bug-free; always have a backup of your data.

This plugin can sync contacts, events, todos, and notes with Akonadi. (There is currently no easy way to view Akonadi notes). Make sure you have at least one akonadi collection of each type before syncing.

opensync-plugin-akonadi on kde-apps.org
libopensync-plugin-akonadi-0.22.tar.bz2 source tarball on the OBS

For both, prerequisites are libopensync-devel and libkdepimlibs4-devel. Compilation is standard

mkdir build; cd build
cmake ..
make
make install

Usage is add plugin to an OpenSync sync group; sync.

Both are available on the OBS in KDE:Unstable:Playground