Re: Updated BitPim todo list

Joe,

With Simon's guidance, I will be finishing the LG VX8300 support.  This 
will include "wallpaper" and "ringers" for the contacts, and various 
other issues.  There are some differences between the VX8100 and VX8300 
which he wants me to work on.

Michael C.

Joe Pham wrote:
> Please let me know what you think.
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> -Joe Pham
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>   BitPim TODO list
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> *$Id: todo.html 2858 2006-03-04 19:35:10Z rogerb $*
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> *Blue*: Completed.
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> *Orange*: Being worked on.
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> *Red*: Not active.
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> Components/Summary 	Who intends to work on it 	Detailed description
> New Calendar GUI and data structure 	  	 
> Time Handling 	  	Deal with timezones. All current code just uses 
> localtime and gets lucky.
> Add support for calendar 	  	Only Replace All is available at the moment
> Outlook Calendar import and export 	  	 
> Evolution Calendar import and export 	  	 
> iCal/vCal Calendar import 	  	 
> iCal/vCal Calendar export 	Joe 	 
> Export phonebook to Outlook CSV 	  	 
> Add support for wallpaper and ringtone 	  	Only Replace All is 
> available at the moment
> Deal with unsupported image or ringer formats coming from the phone 	  	 
> phone video download support 	  	Phone videos are being downloaded 
> along with images
> Extracting QCP audio stream from video files 	  	The movies usually 
> use MPEG4 video with QCP audio. The QCP audio stream needs to be 
> extracted so that it can be converted to something more useful using 
> pvconv.
> Ability for user to change origin field (wallpaper/ringtones) 	  	This 
> allows the user to make files be placed elsewhere on the phone.
> Format selection based on origin 	  	The code needs to select and 
> update the format of media files based on origin or user changes to 
> the origin. This includes changing resolution.
> Ringtone format conversion 	  	 
> Extract duration from QCP files 	  	The duration of QCP files needs to 
> be worked out. This requires an understanding of the file formats, and 
> grovelling in the data within.
> Lazy read/write for Brew files 	Roger 	Currently we read files from 
> the filesystem even if we have a perfectly good copy. We also 
> overwrite files with exactly the same content.
> Deal with character set issues to/from the phones 	  	Things currently 
> work fine for ASCII. We need to deal with non-ascii characters.
> Identify correct Unicode charsets for individual phone models 	All 
> Things currently work fine for ASCII. We need to deal with non-ascii 
> characters.
> Plain text import/export of database 	  	This is to allow backup and 
> restore of the database
> Storing Python objects in the database 	  	Python objects could be 
> stored in the database using pickling. This won't be needed until it 
> is needed as it will make the database non-human readable.
> Removing dependency on DSV 	Joe 	There is a native Python CSV module 
> in Python 2.3+. The DSV module has more functionality such as being 
> able to guess if the first row is a header and guessing delimiters. 
> Unfortunately it isn't maintained any more and has some bugs. So we'll 
> convert to the native module.
> Getting the hexviewer to also edit data 	  	 
> Sprint Samsung calendar issues 	Stephen 	Already happened events 
> should be written if phone has room.
> Sprint Samsung wallpaper writing 	Stephen 	Wallpaper write support is 
> needed. It a matter of figuring out the acceptable image size and 
> color depth.
> Sprint Samsung ringtone/wallpaper assignment 	Stephen 	Unlike A620, 
> the A740/A840 can accept assignment of contacts to builtin 
> ringers/images.
> Statistics display 	Stephen 	Some kind of way for the user to find out 
> statistics of hist data. i.e. number of contacts, number of calendar 
> entries, etc. Either as part of each panel or a dedicated statistics 
> panel.
> File dates 	  	When files are grabbed from the phone and then placed 
> on the host filesystem, the date should be set to be the same as it 
> was on the phone.
> Database data items deletion 	  	(Automatically ?) delete old BitPim 
> data items from the database.
> Capability to store list entities 	  	something along the line of { 
> 'key1': [ { 'key2': [ item1, item2, ..] }, ... ] }
> Recurrent calendar events that span more than 1 day 	Joe 	May need 2 
> separate end dates: one for the duration of each recurrence, and one 
> for the overall event.
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