KPilot 3.2.1 is the latest version of the Desktop HotSync software for Unix and KDE 2. After several release and contributions from users KPilot, along with KOrganizer, has evolved into a rather complete replacement for the Windows Desktop provided by 3Com. KPilot offers a few internal tools for viewing and manipulating data, and a convenient API for developing ways of sharing data with other applications.
There are two web pages for KPilot: the Official KPilot Home Page and the KPilot Bugs Page. There is also a mailing list.
To subscribe to the mailing list: Send mail to <majordomo@slac.com> with the following subject: subscribe kpilot-list and an empty message body.
To unsubscribe from the mailing list: Send mail to <majordomo@slac.com> with the following subject: unsubscribe kpilot-list and an empty message body.
Questions, comments, etc. can be sent to <kpilot-list@slac.com>. In particular bug reports can be sent there, but check out the bugs page first.
New in 3.2.1 - This is a bugfix release, but it also includes new and expanded documentation and some minor layout changes.
New in 3.2.0 - KPilot has been polished sufficiently for a new public release. The infamous application-category bug has been squashed along with other bugs, see the buglist. The documentation has been translated into German and partially into Dutch.
New in 3.1.14 - New configuration options Backup Only and Skip have been added to avoid database corruption for some Handbase databases -- and possibly other products as well. The documentation for KPilot -- in english only -- has been vastly expanded.
New in 3.1.13 - You can now sync - experimentally - with UNIX style mailboxes. The popmail conduit will read a standard mailbox and copy it to the Pilot. The UI has been improved and some issues with various OS distributions have been dealt with. See the buglist for more information.
New in 3.1.12 - This release of KPilot has only been tested with KDE 1.0, 1.1 and 1.1.1. Previous versions of KDE are no longer supported. KPilot 3.1.12 has a number of new features compared to 3.1b9. It also includes a large number of bug fixes.
The most important new features are:
Now supports debugging output, just start KPilot by hand from the command line with kpilot --debug 1023 and you will get loads of debugging output. Useful for reporting bugs.
Addresses can be sorted by company, name or by lastname, firstname.
A new (demonstration) conduit has been added that does nothing. For programmers, mostly.
The UI has been cleaned up.
The most important bugs that have been fixed are:
SMTP support
Daemon startup
The number after --debug indicates what kind of messages you want to see; 1023 indicates all messages. The exact numbers you can use are as follows:
Table 1-1. Debug Values
Value | Meaning |
---|---|
1 | List the name of *every* function called. Very tedious. |
2 | Major UI operations (Creating windows). |
4 | Minor UI operations (Adding visual elements). |
8 | *All* UI operations (Filling list boxes). |
16 | Major database operations. |
32 | Minor database operations. |
64 | All database operations. |
128 | Major sync actions. |
256 | Minor sync actions. |
512 | All sync actions. |
Note that the debugging code hasn't spread to the whole of KPilot yet. The daemon and conduits do have some debugging output, which may also be useful if KPilot doesn't work perfectly on your system.
New in 3.1.9 - This is the fourth release of KPilot. The major change in this release is conduit support. There are currently two included conduits, a KOrganizer conduit (vcal syncing) and a PopMail conduit (this fixes the email bug with KPilot 2.1). Also fixed in this release is the Address/Memo "off by one" bug. This release requires KDE Beta 4 or better.