GNOME-PIM 1.91.0 "Gonna Getta Go"

[Sebastian Rittau <srittau jroger in-berlin de>]

                              GNOME-PIM 1.91.0
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This is an in-development release of GNOME-PIM 2, the GNOME Personal
Information Manager for the GNOME 2 platform. GNOME-PIM includes an iCal
based calendar and a vCard based address book application.

Please note that this release is intended only for developers who want to
participate in the porting effort of GNOME-PIM, and for bold adventurers who
don't fear the unknown. It is not ready for daily use and still contains a
lot of bugs. It will eat your data, be cautious!

News
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This is the first release that features the newly developed LibMIMEDir, a
GObject-based implementation of RFCs 2425 (A MIME Content-Type for
Directory Information) and 2426 (vCard MIME Directory Profile).

LibMIMEDir enables GNOME Card to load and store vCard files in different
encodings, transforming them to the internally used UTF-8 on-the-fly,
and offers a clean and consistent API. Please note that it is currently
not possible to save vCard files with GNOME Card! As libmimedir is still
in development, saving support hasn't been added, yet.

Since libmimedir contains a clean GObject-based vCard object, it was
possible to create new GtkTreeView-based list views and restructure the
CardEditor. The CardEditor dialog now uses instant apply semantics. Also,
all calls to deprecated Gtk+ functions could be removed and GNOME-PIM does
build with {G,GTK,GDK,GNOME}_DISABLE_DEPRECATED defined.

To Do
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There is still a lot of work to be done, before GNOME-PIM 2.0.0 can be
released. During the porting effort, parts of GNOME-PIM had to be
rewritten from scratch, and there are still more parts scheduled for
replacement.

LibMIMEDir needs saving support for vCards. It will also get support for
iCal calendar files, so that GNOME Calendar will be enabled to read and
write UTF-8 coded files. This is needed for proper internationalization.

Also, major parts are not HIG compliant and not accessible. The
documentation is lacking, too. For a full to do list of to-do item,
see the file TODO in the distribution or in the gnome-pim-2-branch of
GNOME CVS's gnome-pim module.

Unfortunately Palm Pilot support had to be dropped from the GNOME 2 port
of GNOME-PIM, but we hope to be revive it, once GNOME-Pilot (or a better
replacement) is ported to GNOME 2.

Availability
============

Libmimedir 0.1.0 (a prerequisite for GNOME-PIM) is available at:

  http://me.in-berlin.de/~jroger/gnome-pim/libmimedir-0.1.0.tar.gz

GNOME-PIM 1.91.0 is available at:

  http://me.in-berlin.de/~jroger/gnome-pim/gnome-pim-1.91.0.tar.gz

Bugs in this release should either be reported at Buzilla with the
version set to 1.90.x or directly to gnome-pim-maint (at) gnome.org.
Patches are very welcome.