gnome-panel calendar integration was Re: [Evolution-hackers] summary, gdeskcal ideas

[William Jon McCann <mccannwj pha jhu edu>]

Hi,

I have implemented a couple of prerequisite features for the gnome-panel 
clock applet to use Evo calendar.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118913
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119109

Here's the way I see it working for now:

* user double clicks on a date

* clock applet checks to see if appointment_tool is set in gconf and is 
available

* appointment_tool is spawned with the date as an argument

* appointment_tool could look something like this 
<http://acs.pha.jhu.edu/~mccannwj/evo/Screenshot-appointment-tool.png> 
and simply list the appointments for the day that it pulled from Evolution

* Adding or modifying an appointment would invoke the Evolution 
appointment editor 
<http://acs.pha.jhu.edu/~mccannwj/evo/Screenshot-evo-1.4-appointments.png>

This method has the advantage that gnome-panel does not need to depend 
on any new libs and can work with other calendars.

I suppose the appointment tool could embed the Evolution day view 
instead of showing a list if that sort of thing is possible.

The next thing to do is to actually implement the appointment tool and 
talk to evolution with libcal-client.

Any comments before I begin?

Thanks,
Jon

Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 01:45, William Jon McCann wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>gdeskcal is nice but we already have a nice little calendar in the
>>gnome-panel clock.  Has anyone started adding Evo calendar support to
>>that?  That would be true integration goodness.
>>
>>What would the proper interface to Evo be for this?
>>
>
> using libcal-client is the correct way for this.
>
> cheers