Re: [Evolution-hackers] Move evolution-alarm-notify to E-D-S?

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan gnome org>]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com> wrote:
> Here's a crazy idea...
>
> What do you guys think about moving evolution-alarm-notify to E-D-S as a
> simple D-Bus service?  It could live in the new "services" directory:
>
>    evolution-data-server/services/evolution-alarm-notify/
>
> evolution-alarm-notify is already an autostart program, launched when
> you start your desktop session, well before you ever launch Evolution.
>
> Problem is if it dies for some reason it has to be manually restarted,
> otherwise you'll miss appointment reminders.
>
> My thought was if it also claimed a well-known session bus name then it
> could easily be activated by evolution-calendar-factory on start up, and
> (most importantly) RE-activated if the calendar factory detects that the
> bus name lost its owner.

I like the idea. It might also be great, if it can notify across the
bus for alarms so that any third party program can listen and operate
upon.

-Srini