Re: subscribing to calendars WAS Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution 2.0 UI proposal

[Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 15:42, JT Moree wrote:
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> There a few other threads that are working along the same lines.  When you say subscribe, does that
> mean pulling down the calendar manually and placing it on the network or would evo have methods for
> storing a url and downloading the file for you?

You give evo an url, and it will pull the file with gnome-vfs, and then
periodically check for updates, so that when the ical file is updated on
the web, you see the changes on your calendar.

I dont know about the technical details though, since I dont do coding
myself. But that was the idea how it should work.

Tuomas

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> Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> | On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 15:56, Brent L. Damms wrote:
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> |
> |>I like the concept of grouping, but what we have to day solves most
> |>cases.
> |>
> |>Indeed what it difference in users mind between these two screen shots.
> |>
> |>http://jason.redsys.net/evo2/calendar.png
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> |>http://primates.ximian.com/~anna/evo2/evo2_calendar.png
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> |>I'd seriously argue not a great deal; OK the visuals are different but
> |>the conceptual framework is the same - i.e. a group of calendars
> |
> |
> | Hi!
> |
> | The deal with the new calendar grouping is this: the plan is to support
> | "subscribing" to calendar files from the network. So you can for example
> | go to www.icalshare.com and there are a big bunch of pre-done calendar
> | files people have done and decided to share. This way it is easy to get
> | useful data in your calendar. Lets think you get movie premiers for your
> | town, you pull in the product release schedule calendar from your
> | company intranet, you have a calendar of birthdays of your own, you got
> | stuff on an Exchange share etc. With current Evolution you can have this
> | (apart from the web subscription) but it is not that useful since those
> | are all separate calendars. With the new plan, you can have all those
> | overlaid on the calendar display, and events from different calendars
> | could show with different colors so you can spot things easily.
> |
> | Want to see if there is a new movie on your friend's birthday? Easy.
> | Select "movie premiers" and "birthdays" calendars for showing. Wondering
> | still if you had any eeky deadlines to catch at that time? Add in the
> | work schedule calendar or study stuff or ... You get the idea.
> |
> | With current Evolution you have all that data but it is separate. Unless
> | you just import it all to the same calendar where it is easy to clutter
> | stuff. So this is a way to define what kind of stuff you want to see in
> | the calendar.
> |
> | This could also be extended with filtering: "Only show movie previews on
> | fridays and saturdays" etc.
> |
> | Tuomas
> |
> |
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