Re: [gDesklets] Calendar proposal ant others.

[Robo Pastierovic <pastierovic gmail com>]

BTW, better post these questions to gD mailing list Alessandro. More 
people can have something to say about.

R.

Robo Pastierovic wrote:
> Alessandro Vincenzi wrote:
> > Hi people!
> > I've had an idea about an aesthetic improvement: what about showing 
> > events and current day changing the colour of the font instead of 
> > printing a rectangle on the background? See the two pictures attached.
> >
> > Instead of having a structure like
> >
> > <array length=31>
> >   <group>
> >     <label/>
> >   </group>
> > </array>
> >
> > we could get rid of the group and use
> >
> > <array length=31>
> >     <label/>
> > </array>
> >
> > instead. The group is now used only for the ".x", ".y", ".on-enter", 
> > ".on-leave" (which are in label too cause they are common attributes) 
> > and for ".bg-color" (which can be replaced with the ".color" of the 
> > label).
> >
> > Do u agree?? Do u think it looks better?
> It's OK with me. You can change it.
> > And .... what about the management of the events now? Bjoern said it 
> > was better to eliminate those big arrays. Were you talking about only 
> > the arrays of mobile events (like EasterApril = ("Easter", [(2007, 
> > 21), (2008, 13), ....]) or about the "big structure" in general?
> > Because i think that to keep all the structure in memory (ram) is a 
> > waste (for all the languages too) cause it's rare that the user 
> > change the event set or even the month showed. What about reading the 
> > events data of the month from a file only when needed? Cause if in 
> > the future we will add more and ore events and language the 
> > structures we're using now will become enormous compared to the 
> > single month we have to show, if necessary.
> Yes it would be better to load it from file. If you know how to do it 
> then go ahead.
> > A last question. I wrote an answer in launchpad about the management 
> > of the preference's callback function but I've not received an answer 
> > yet. Do u know why? It simply takes a lot or u think it was a stupid 
> > question? Don't know...
>
> This I cannot answer, I don't know the gD core source code enough. The 
> original core developers are not active anymore, so someone brave 
> enough could rewrite the preferences callback function, if it's not 
> correct.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robo