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



On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 22:50, William Jon McCann wrote:
> 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
>
I would even add a popup menu with some options, like new appointment,
or something like that.

> * 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
> 
yes, maybe with some Back/Forward buttons to move the displayed day?

> * 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.
> 
yes, it's 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?
> 
no, just good luck! And any doubt you've got, please ask.

cheers




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