Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evolution Alarm UI

[Harish Krishnaswamy <kharish novell com>]

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 15:12 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> Hey guys,
<snip>
> - Alarm Daemon must can start independently,
How are accounts that require authentication (and whose passwords are
not remembered)
handled when evo is not already running ? 

> - There will be a option in Evolution to say that whether to start alarm
> automatically with evolution or not.
> 
Is this option like -
'when-you-launch-evolution-and-find-notify-not-running-start-it'  -
yes/no ?
ATM, Evolution users do not have a choice but don't seem to complain
either.
> - 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
> 
Selection as in 'enabled in Evolution calendar' or 'selected for
notifications' ?
I do not recall this coming up in our earlier discussions - but if you
mean the latter, you will
need a per-ESource notification status bit in gconf and handle the
authentication problem
here as well.
> - 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
> 
I like this very much :-)
> - 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.
 Hoping to see the new-look Evolution editor soon as well :-)

thanks Srini,
Harish