Getting ready for KDE review — Kalendar devlog 18

Good news! We have spent time this week preparing Kalendar for KDE Review — the two‑week process that new KDE applications are subjected to before initial release. Don’t worry, we’re going to go over what that means in a second. We will also go through some of the refactoring, tweaking, and boatload bug‑fixing that has been happening in anticipation for KDE Review. Oh… and our new logo! That doesn’t mean we’ve stopped working on new features, however. Far from it! We have some new cool stuff to show off, including timezone management and expanded tag filtering capabilities. ...

October 10, 2021 · 6 min · 1200 words · Claudio Cambra

Massive new features: a new week view, KCommandBar, and more — Kalendar devlog 17

Note: Kalendar is still under heavy development. You’re free to poke around and try it out, but it is not yet final software! If you want to contribute to its development, join us in Kalendar’s Matrix room. Up until now, Kalendar has allowed you to view your events on a day-by-day basis through both the month view and the schedule view. This week, we are introducing the week view, which gives you a more detailed perspective of your incidences. ...

October 3, 2021 · 5 min · 1018 words

Turbocharging Kalendar — Kalendar devlog 16

Note: Kalendar is still under heavy development. You’re free to poke around and try it out, but it is not yet final software! If you want to contribute to its development, join us in Kalendar’s Matrix room. This week, we have focused on one thing: speed. From UI additions to under-the-hood improvements, Kalendar is now quicker to use and faster to act than ever! Big optimisations to Kalendar !71: Optimise the monthview and schedule view (Claudio Cambra) ...

September 26, 2021 · 3 min · 616 words

New tag management capabilities, usability improvements, and a bunch of fixes — Kalendar devlog 15

Note: Kalendar is still under heavy development. You’re free to poke around and try it out, but it is not yet final software! If you want to contribute to its development, join us in Kalendar’s Matrix room. This week, we have once again included a big number of little UI changes that should make Kalendar easier to use and prettier to look at than ever. Building upon our tag work from last week, we have also made tags far more feature complete this week. Let’s take a look! ...

September 19, 2021 · 4 min · 841 words

Tag filtering, better navigation and lots of little UI tweaks — Kalendar devlog 14

Note: Kalendar is still under heavy development. You’re free to poke around and try it out, but it is not yet final software! If you want to contribute to its development, join us in Kalendar’s Matrix room. This week, we have done lots of small tweaks to Kalendar and are introducing a big, new, highly requested feature by many of you. Added displaying of todo tags and filtering todos by tags in the Todo View !51: Add tag filtering and displaying capabilities for todos in Kalendar (Claudio Cambra) ...

September 11, 2021 · 3 min · 531 words

Killing the dreaded hamburger menu — Kalendar devlog 13

Note: Kalendar is still under heavy development. You’re free to poke around and try it out, but it is not yet final software! If you want to contribute to its development, join us in Kalendar’s Matrix room. This week, we have made some more UI tweaks to Kalendar, making it easier and faster to use than ever. We have also turned lots of stones and crushed lots of bugs. Let’s get to it! ...

September 4, 2021 · 4 min · 758 words

Checking events and ticking todos on your Pinephone — Kalendar devlog 12

Note: Kalendar is still under heavy development. You’re free to poke around and try it out, but it is not yet final software! If you want to contribute to its development, join us in Kalendar’s Matrix room. This week, we have added a host of improvements to Kalendar that should make using it on a touchscreen a significantly nicer experience. To demonstrate, we are going to show Kalendar running on the Pinephone! ...

August 28, 2021 · 4 min · 679 words

Say hello to your new todo app! – Kalendar week 11 (GSoC 2021)

Note: Kalendar is still under heavy development. You’re free to poke around and try it out, but it is not yet final software! This week, we have something new to show you: Kalendar is getting ready to become your new todo app! The work you will see is not yet finished — there are a lot of visual tweaks that will happen soon and it is still missing some important capabilities. However, we are happy to show you what will become the base for the productivity-focused section of KDE’s new calendar application. ...

August 21, 2021 · 4 min · 646 words

Big fixes, more customisation, many improvements — Kalendar week 10 (GSoC 2021)

Over the past week, work has focused on three things: stability, tweaks, and options. Once again, all of your feedback has been valuable and it has driven many of the additions and changes you all have asked about over the past few weeks. There’s a lot to get through, so let’s get started! Making maps even more useful !15: Add opt-in location maps to Kalendar !16: Also consider existing geo coordinates for positioning the map ...

August 14, 2021 · 5 min · 943 words

Making Kalendar pretty — Kalendar week 9 (GSoC 2021)

This week, we spent some time making Kalendar more pleasant to look at. We took some of your feedback from last week (thank you for your ideas!), and we think you will like what we have in store for you in this post. There’s another feature some of you have asked for that you will also see here. 😉 Improved the appearance of the month view and visual consistency across views !14: Improve month view and schedule view visually ...

August 8, 2021 · 4 min · 844 words