Re: CORBA interface to gnome calendar

[Dirk Luetjens <dirk Elfe lfm RWTH-Aachen DE>]

Hi,

Manish Vachharajani <mvachhar@vger.rutgers.edu> writes:

> generic conduit for the DateBook app on the Palm Pilot.  With a good CORBA
> interface I can write a generic conduit that will talk to any back end the
> user is using that implements this interface.  Right now I am content in
> assuming it will be gnome cal.  The reason I don't want the GUI to pop up

Funny, yesterday evening I thought the same about gnomecard,
too, after I tried to import my addresses from a MS Excel Sheet to
MS Outlook to export it again as a VCard record :-). After two hours I 
gave up since I couldn't convince Outlook to read my adressrecords. 

I'm not a specialist in this area. What I thought of, was to have an IDL 
description to access a adressbook/calender, an editor to change
records like gnomecal/gnomecard, some backends to access the data as
textfiles, databases, ... This is so trivial, that I can't believe
that there isn't a standard, yet, and this is although so trivial,
that this can't fit all needs one might expect from an
addressbok/calendar. Only exchanging complete vCalendar/vCard records
can't be all. 

Dirk