[Evolution-hackers] Evolution Alarm UI

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

Hey guys,

I have been working on some changes to the alarm notification with chen
and chax. As part of this im planning to do some changes and attached
some UI screenshots.

*Proposal*

- Alarm Daemon must can start independently, via a .desktop file in the
panel menu, so that it can be started independent of Evolution.

- There will be a option in Evolution to say that whether to start alarm
automatically with evolution or not.

- Alarm starts with a tray icon, and has provisions to quit, change
configurations. In the configuration gui, the user can select, which
calendars, notifications are required. Only for the selected calendars
the user will get notifications.
http://www.gnomebangalore.org/?q=system/files&file=/preferences_0.png

- No more Popup notifications, if libnotify is installed. When the alarm
has to be indicated, a desktop notification would be send, stating the
subject, location, time (duration).

http://www.gnomebangalore.org/?q=system/files&file=/notification_0.png

- In addition to that, when ever there is a alarm, the tray icon, has a
blinking '!' in it and the tool tip stating the Subject, time
(duration). 
http://www.gnomebangalore.org/?q=system/files&file=/tooltip_0.png

If there are more than one alarm, it says the number of alarms. On click
of that, the blink would be gone and the regular popup will appear
stating everything.

Please feel free to provide your comments. Im eager to include new
things into this.

Thanks
Srini.