Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution Webcal 1.0.2

[William Jon McCann <mccannwj pha jhu edu>]

Rodney Dawes wrote:
> Right. It requires the passing of the http/https/webcal uri on the
> command line, and then it will do the subscribe dialog stuff for that,
> assuming it is a valid calendar. It could be generalized, but I do not
> intend to do that yet, because some of the stuff that needs to work in
> certain ways, does not. For instance, opening a text/calendar mime type
> in mozilla or such, typically results in the file being downloaded to a
> temporary location, and then the local file uri being passed to the app.

Ah, right.

> > Two use cases:
> >  - clicking on a file in nautilus 
> It seems like the user would probably rather import this, than subscribe
> to local files. If the file is not local though, it might make sense to
> subscribe to it. The importing requires additional support inside the
> evolution core, which isn't there yet.

OK.  I think you are right.  Most people will probably want to import in 
this case.  I think there is some value in being able to subscribe to 
any gnome-vfs text/calendar file though.  Could be useful for sharing a 
calendar on an NFS/SMB volume or for pulling calendar files though 
filewalls and storing them locally with a cronjob.

> >  - 
> > http://landfill.mozilla.org/bugzilla-tip/buglist.cgi?query_format=&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=&ctype=ics
> >
> > This will allow us to get our bugzilla TODO lists automatically updated 
> > in our gnome-panel calendar :)
>
> Yes. This would be excellent. I would love to do it, if someone can help
> me to figure out how to override mime type handlers in a mozilla
> extension. I already have an extension that overrides the URL handlers
> inside mozilla, by calling "gnome-open", and is actually how I use this.
> :) If I can get mime type handlers overridden to do similarly though, I
> could do a lot more than just the text/calendar thing.

I'm glad you reminded me of this.  This would work fine if bugzilla just 
used the webcal protocol 
<http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237901>.

Thanks,
Jon