The project

Plasma Mobile: Nextcloud contacts integration

Add edit contact functionality to enable users to edit contacts synced from Nextcloud account using Plasma-Phonebook app. This will reflect the changes in the Nextcloud account and also in our phonebook

Mentor

Rituka Patwal

Work done

Support to:

Setting up Plasma-Phonebook for desktop.
Setting up of sink
Testing the add, delete and modify contacts functionality using sink test app.
Implemented the changes to kpeoplesink.cpp.The setCustomProperty function is updated to execute the modify function correctly.
Tested again to check the edit contact functionality. It worked fine in case of editing single contact of phonebook and syncing it to cloud.

To more details see my blog related posts: SOK 2020 : First Blog

Commits can be found here: https://invent.kde.org/medhagupta/kpeople-sink/commit/913813d281d94275e25ad119e3828c7252bced04

What I have learned in SoK

Setting up development environment.
How to work/build with CMake.
Getting used to frameworks like QT working on C++
How sink actually functions.
How to be good at research and resolving development issues.
How to debug using gdb.
Understood the add, delete and modify contacts functionalities of plasma-phonebook.
Understood the relation between Plasma-Phonebook, kpeople, kpeople-sink.

What Next?

I am going to continue to work on this project to make the edit contact functionality work properly while editing multiple contacts in Plasma-Phonebook. Still looking out for the major issue behind this. Also I'm enjoying every bit of it and learning a lot of new things. So yeah, this is one hell of an experience.

Contact

Telegram: medhagupta098
Email: [email protected]