Re: [Evolution] Post 1.0 feature suggestion

[Eric Lambart <lambart got net>]

I think adding the ability to recognize so many ways of writing the date
would would risk some code bloat, but IMHO you should go ahead and add
it as a wishlist item. That would be really neat.
--Eric

On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 10:02, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> I often find myself getting emails that have events on them that I then
> copy onto my Palm. Recently I got an evolution bugday announcement with
> an attached calendar entry. Here's my idea: Some simple way for
> evolution to add events mentioned in emails to the calendar. I'll
> suggest an interface, thoguh it may not be the best one. 
>
> For example I recieved the following text in an email recently:
>
> "California?s (and Claremont?s) Energy Future, Part II:  A Special
> Forum: with
> Michael Black , Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science,
> Harvey Mudd College
> Samuel Tanenbaum, Professor of Engineering,  Harvey Mudd College
> Richard Worthington, Professor of Politics, Pomona College
> Wednesday, Sept 26th, 4 PM
>
> Suppose I could select this block of text and right click on it.  It
> shouldn't be too hard for Evolution to see that the selected text
> contains a date and time. This could be the clue that it's an event.
> Then one of the context-menu options would be ``add this event to
> calendar.'' Clicking on that could bering up the new appointment dialog
> with the start time as 9/26/2001, 04:00 PM and with a summary of the
> first 80 characters of the non-date selected text.
>
>
> If people like this idea I'll add it to bugzilla. I think it could
> really add to the integration of mailer and calendar.
>
> --Ben