Re: Gnome3/Gnome-shell Calendar backend

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

Additionally, take a look at the evolution of the patches that davidz
did, he had two or three different event sources that are now all
gone, and those might be useful to start from.

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Giovanni Campagna
<scampa giovanni gmail com> wrote:
> Il giorno dom, 20/03/2011 alle 20.31 +0100, Onyeibo Oku ha scritto:
>> I have Thunderbird with lightning beta installed on Fedora 15
>> (gnome3/gnome-shell DE).  The default Mail Client in Gnome3 is
>> Evolution.  Evolution crashed sometime ago and messed up my contacts
>> and mail db.  So, I decided to try Thunderbird.
>>
>> The problem is that Gnome3 doesn't yet realize that Thunderbird with
>> Lighting (beta) provides Calender services (correct me if I'm wrong
>> please).  Is there a way to correct this so that the Calendar events
>> will show up on Gnome-shell calender UI?
>
> Of course. You must first write a patch against DateMenu
> (js/ui/dateMenu.js:55) so that it can pick a custom source instead
> of the default DBusEventSource (possibly analizing
> org.gnome.default-applications.calendar or some other GSettings key),
> then just write a Lighting EventSource (see js/ui/calendar.js), using
> whatever DBus API or library Lightning uses (it may involve an extension
> for Lightning, if database access is not normally granted to external
> processe).
> Thanks for your interest in this and file a bug when you're ready!
>
> Giovanni
>
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