Re: [evolution-patches] VJOURNAL support in file backend

[pchenthill <pchenthill novell com>]

This can be committed.

- Chenthill.

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 15:30 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 07:51 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 13:01 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 16:41 +0530, pchenthill wrote:
> > > > Hi rodrigo,
> > > > 	You missed to attach the e-cal-backend-file-journal.h. Can you please
> > > > attach the same.
> > > > 
> > > > thanks, chenthill.
> > > > 
> > > here it is
> > 
> > Do we want to do down this road for notes or would it be better to look
> > at integrating tomboy notes some how?
> > 
> since we already have all the backend and synchronisation of clients via
> the E-D-S API, my plan is to convince tomboy/notes applet people to use
> e-d-s for notes, rather than us accessing their files directly, with no
> synchronisation at all.
> 
> To make it clear, this is what I've thought:
> * make sure we support VJOURNAL in the calendar API and backends
> (working on this)
> * write a simple notes API on top of the VJOURNAL (not sure if this is
> really what we want, but I guess it would be much better to have a very
> simple API for tomboy/notes applet to use rather than the libecal API)
> * write a GUI component for the shell to manage notes. Not sure exactly
> yet how this could be done, so any idea is welcome.
> 
> The idea of using VJOURNAL is that the notes thing could be used either
> for simple notes (VJOURNAL with no date set) or for a diary-type thing
> (VJOURNAL with dates). Also, as we discussed some time ago, VNOTE was
> obsoleted.