Re: [Evolution-hackers] webcal tasks

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 18:26 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> It seems that subscribing to webcal VTODO lists isn't currently 
> possible.  Is this right?
> 
> At first look I see two things:
> 
> + Calendar and Task sources split in gconf
> 
>    A file with VTODO components should go into tasks/sources.  A file 
> with VEVENT components should go into calendar/sources.  Does this imply 
> that a file with both VTODO and VEVENT should go into tasks/sources and 
> calendar/sources?
> 
yes, although it's probably not a good idea to have them mixed. But yes,
adding the source to both calendar/sources and tasks/sources might work.

>    I suppose that this could be handled by evolution-webcal by searching 
> the file before adding to the source lists.
> 
> + HTTP backend for calendar filters on ICAL_VEVENT_COMPONENT
> 
>    Could this just be changed to ICAL_ANY_COMPONENT and then optionally 
> filter out VALARMS, etc. that we don't need?
> 
it would be much better if it just filtered
ICAL_VTODO/VEVENT_COMPONENT's, and then ignore the others.

> I tried experimenting with this.  I modified evolution-webcal to create 
> an On The Web source group in tasks/sources and subscribed to a calendar 
> with only VTODO entries.  It shows up in the Tasks sources pane but when 
> I select it nothing seems to happen.
> 
It's missing the registration of the webcal: protocol for tasks in
e-d-s/src/server.c. There, look for e_data_cal_factory_register_method.

cheers