Re: [Evolution-hackers] Delete Calendar events

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 19:03, Ronald Kuetemeier wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> has anybody given any thoughts to deleting calendar events and how the
> gui to it should look like?
> 
> Here are my history and some thoughts.
> I used to reverse delete calendar events, using a program which would
> create a new calendar file with events back 60 days from today and 1
> year in the future. This way I could archive my old calendar and just
> use the new file in future evolution sessions. 
> Pros: fast, simple, works, easy to archive. 
> Cons: Not very intuitive, have to shut down evolution to install new
> calendar file. 
> 
> Now there is another problem, one really doesn't know when the program
> is done (Ok one can look at the screen and see if there is any more
> output), but that's not easy to automate.
> 
> We could write a daemon which listens to calendar events and deletes old
> calendar entries.
> Pros: easy to write, auto start up
> Cons: hard to use for archiving, uses resources even when doing nothing.
> 
There is already a 'Purge' command in HEAD, which allows you to remove
old entries based on a date. It could have a way to allow users to
archive the entries somewhere if they want to.

> Now I thought doing the following, write the daemon but create a new
> calendar file with all the entries which should be deleted, then count
> the entries in the new calendar file. Now since we have a count we know
> when we are done (daemon exit) and can delete the entries which are in
> the new file from the org. calendar.
> This way the daemon can run on a timely basis and run in parallel to 
> evolution and create archive files. No Gui.
> 
hmm, is there really a need for that daemon if we've got the 'archive'
option in Purge?

cheers