KDE-Pim meeting: day -1, Mice & Motivation
Tomorrow I will drive to Osnabrück for the yearly kdepim meeting. I’m looking forward to meeting some people I’ve not met yet. The main subject will be Akonadi of course. More kdepim applications will convert to Akonadi and hopefully will be ready for 4.1.0. We need to make some kind of roadmap to get it all done in time and I’m excited to see if we can make it.
Mailody already made the first steps for using Akonadi as a backend and we are running into some bugs and things we need to discuss. Nothing to serious, but such a meeting will help to quickly determine if we are doing something wrong or if it is an akonadi bug. Discussing this is so much faster when seeing people face-to-face than when discussed on mailinglists and irc. Someone raised the question if it would be possible to have an irc meeting with the Gnome developers answering their questions. I hope that will happen. It would be great, even awesome, if they got involved, it’s wat Akonadi had in mind from the start.
I’m looking forward to the Hotel. Normally I don’t, but a mouse has decided to infiltrate the walls of my house and is starting to eat away something… at night… So I don’t get much sleep at night. Of course I’m not an interesting party for the pest control companies, so I just hope that the problem will go away while I’m away for a few days. They all advise poison and traps, but that’s kind of useless when the mouse is between the walls. I also have two cats which will deal with the mouse as soon as it breaks through. They are staring at the wall continuously and even sleep next to it, just waiting for the mouse to pop up. I’ll be glad to miss that party when it happens.
When this event is finished, I will continue working on Mailody and the relicensing effort. The latter is not so exciting but needs to be done. It’s getting tougher to reach the right persons, most of the ‘easy to reach’-people have given their permissions, what remains are the people who have left the KDE-project and probably switched email addresses three times already. But basically I need to sit down and make some nice lists of people to contact, it’s doable, just takes time.
Not sure how many people will blog about the meeting, so I’ll try to write something daily.
So I hope he/she is dead or eaten by my cats. If not they have up to sunday evening to deal with them ;-) Thanks for the advice
Kmail uses the correct identity for replying when it sees the email was addressed to an address used in any of the profiles. And you can set up an identity for a folder iirc. Thanks for switching.
Mice (and sometimes even rats) generally climb up cavity walls to chew at things. It’s amazing how small an opening they can get through.
Look in your kitchen and bathroom for places where pipes go through the wall or floor. These gaps are prime entry/exit points. As are pipes into your house, e.g. water, heating, electric/phone cables.
You should do something about your problem before they get breding, which they do fairly quickly.
Mice are a nuisance, rats can be a health hazard so don’t ignore the issue. A very sensitive trap with some tasty bate is the first thing to try, be careful with your fingers!
I had a rat a year ago, they’re surprising clever let things. They would notice a trap and take another route to avoid it. Try not to distrub the area where you set the trap so maximise your changes of catching your little friend.
I’m looking forward to your posts. I’ve been trying to finally switch from Thunderbird to Kontact/KDEPIM for about a year, but there where always certain things that kept me from doing that. After fiddling with Kontact for some time today I sort of made it (TB is still on my HD though ;) ).
I don’t know if you’re involved in anything GUI-related, but maybe you could bring up the issue of linking identities to mail accounts to anyone who is. You know, being able to reply to a message sent to account X, with Kontact automatically picking the right mail account to reply with.
Other than that, I really like the addressbook and calendar that is present in Kontact right now. From what I’ve read about Akonadi, it’s going to be all kinds of awesome, and I’m really looking forward to KDE 4.1 (tried 4.0, but need my machine for productive work, so I’m still working on KDE 3.5.8 ..). Oh, and if there was an easy way to synch my Nokia 6300 with Kontact, I would be soooo happy, but I guess that’s not really the PIM(p)s ( ;) ) responsibility. Anyway, cheers from Oldenburg
Goblin