I would like to expose You an app that i was working since some time. uPIM, which is a Personal Information Manager. It’s written from ground-up without any GPL/FOSS code in it. I would like to know if there will be interests in this kind of software on Haiku. Its not free software, but donationware, which means if You want to get full version with all feats enabled you’ll need to donate to my paypal account.
Thanks to this kind of license [DonationWare] You’re supporting me, and I supporting You.
What’s PIM:
A personal information manager (often referred to as a PIM tool or, more simply, a PIM) is a type of application software that functions as a personal organizer. The acronym PIM is now, more commonly, used in reference to personal information management as a field of study.[1] As an information management tool, a PIM tool’s purpose is to facilitate the recording, tracking, and management of certain types of “personal information”.
I’d be interested in an app tracking my appointments and list of all the things I don’t find the time/motivation to do…
Does your uPIM rely on Qt? Will it integrate well with Haiku (bookmarks, MIME types, people files etc.)?
Do you use an open file format, so I may migrate my data should a better PIM come along?
Tried your version, listed missing QTlibs. Dragged the QT8.4.5 HPKG to system packages.
Your program still reported missing libraries, tried rebooting and failed again.
Redid everything from the start,found I needed to wait for QT to install.
Your program started fine, nice touch with deskcalc.
But the looks of the needs lots of work.
Why the two big blue blocks above the the calendar?
Why the ugly icons for the rest of the program? I am sure QT does gray-scale, colour would be nice but not needed. Also even on 1440*900 I found the icons very big.
I will try out the function next, but a quick browse does make them look good.
Even as is I probably will open a paypal account for this and to send Haiku money.
[quote=Earl Colby Pottinger]Tried your version, listed missing QTlibs. Dragged the QT8.4.5 HPKG to system packages.
Your program still reported missing libraries, tried rebooting and failed again.
Redid everything from the start,found I needed to wait for QT to install.
Your program started fine, nice touch with deskcalc.
But the looks of the needs lots of work.
Why the two big blue blocks above the the calendar?
Why the ugly icons for the rest of the program? I am sure QT does gray-scale, colour would be nice but not needed. Also even on 1440*900 I found the icons very big.
I will try out the function next, but a quick browse does make them look good.
Even as is I probably will open a paypal account for this and to send Haiku money.[/quote]
About icons: its always problem to find consistent iconpack with cc license that will be usable with application you’re building. I couldnt find aby suitable icons pack so i choose the one that fits best. I would love to add a proper haiku icons set if i find one. Zumi icons are perfect but they are not fit into PIM best :< [missing many icons that are required by uPIM]
BTW. Thanks for checking uPIM. I hope You’ll find it helpfull. [haiku lacks a lot productivity apps like this… ]
I have briefly tried UPIM and I kinda like the concept.
While I was not thoroughly testing your app, I’ve discovered two potential bugs.
Time does not show correctly (UPIM showed two hrs behind than Haiku itself)
Second, Please try to reproduce it:
Create a two calendar evens - for today and tomorrow (name like Even 1 and Event 2)
Go to tomorrow to show Event 2
Click on To do Icon
Go back to Calendar view, clicking Calendar icon
RESULT: It will try to show todays calendar events, BUT tomorrows Even 2 is visible (which is wrong)
Hope it helps, otherwise nice concept (apart from going totally against BeOS concept of lean and small code, being over 7MB - but is is probably because of QT used, instead of Haiku API)
<I agree the above comment about the icons, it will blend nicely with Haiku like icons>
I was aware of this but, and unfortunately its lazarus bug :/. Its because when you’re returning to tab with tcalendar it tries to go back to actual date in tcalendar [but tcalendar should stay on the day that was choosen by user].
I think i’ll make a small workaround for that.
About, date… Its strange, really. Because on linux + windows versions the date+time is correct.
