Re: [Evolution] Busy Search

[Ronald Kuetemeier <ronald kuetemeier com>]

On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 11:19, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 15:35, Ronald Kuetemeier wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 12:18, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> > > I've just got to ask....  Does anyone actually have this working??? 
> > > This has been discussed on this list several times recently, and
> > > everytime someone replies with "yeah, evo can do that...".
> > >
> > > I'm running evo 1.2.4-1.1 (debian sid), and have tried to get evolution
> > > to use F/B URL's for the last few months.  You can see the result of one
> > > of a discussion on the list (ending with a post by Ettore) here:
> > > http://www.mail-archive.com/evolution lists ximian com/msg01091.html
> > >
> > > I guess I'm asking anyone to dispute the following statements:
> > >
> > > - jIcal works wonderfully.   (I doubt I'll get any argument on this one)
> >
> > Why on earth would you run a time scheduled service when evolution
> > publishes events.  Just listen in and write f/b when the calendar has
> > changed for the publishing time frame (just needs a little pgm).
>
> riiiight.  when you write it, let me know.  =;)  
Well I did some time ago, ~ 1year. 

> better yet--when you
> write it and it gets merged into evo proper, let me know.  =:P
Why should it, only a very few people will use it.  One can easily
create bloat with all this little things only a few people will use. And
the architecture allows for extension that the main users are not going
to  use. 

> meanwhile, someone has written a very nice translator that does the
> trick quite nicely.  it's called jical.  =:)
What ever suits your needs. 

> >  
> > > - evolution can't actually use F/B URL's (I would LOVE to be proved
> > > wrong on this one)
> > Sure it does. Just use CVS head or patch 1.2.4, see evolution-hackers
> > list. Just a minor problem with reading information from a server,
> > should work locally (file:///xxxx, is a url).
>
> I'll wait until 1.4.0 then.
>
> > Ronald
> >
> >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 05:17, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 01:56, Joe Baker wrote:
> > > > > I'm waiting for a busy search without having to 
> > > > > buy an exchange server.
> > > > >
> > > > > You hint in the configs about publishing your schedule to a url, 
> > > > > but I've never seen anything documented about this.
> > > > you just have to specify the F/B URL in the addressbook, per user, and
> > > > when scheduling a meeting, the meeting editor will get the F/B info from
> > > > that URL.
> > > >
> > > > cheers
> > > >
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