Re: Calendar/Alarm IRC Developer Meeting?

On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 05:56, Robert Mibus wrote:
> no full-day events
> -> Why not?

You can easily set the start and end time for an appointment to
encompass a full day (or even several days). There doesn't seem to be
much benefit in having a special button for that.

> todo alarms/recurrance?
> -> Will we / do we want todo items to integrate into the calendar? (I
> think yes). If so, do they 'deserve' to be able to have alarms? Or at
> least some sort of reminder?

Yes. My working copy of gpe-calendar now has three classes of event:
appointment, reminder, and task. The latter is assigned a due date and
will start showing up in gpe-todo some appropriate amount of time before
this date.

Providing a warning about outstanding todo items seems like the kind of
thing that gpe-today should be doing. This might go for alarms on
untimed reminders as well.

> 3rd tuesday style recurrence
> -> recurrance is missing the ability to recur on (eg.) "The 3rd Tuesday
> of every month". (Which means I never know when my LUG meetings are :-)

Yeah. There is a bug open for this already, as you probably know. The
difficulty here is coming up with a suitable representation for the
recurrence relation. There is some interesting XEmacs stuff described
in <1ycc2b3s.fsf_at_random.localnet.UnwiredUniverse.com>.

> sound - builtin/external - vorbis!
> -> The Palm had a built-in alarm sound; IMHO we should too, but allow
> external sounds if people want. The nmf-ogg decoder could be used to
> allow vorbis sounds ;-)

Yes. Well, the way to do that is to say that the external sound can be
any audio file, and use some kind of MIME type mapping to figure out
what to use to play it. It would be easy to make a basic noninteractive
"frontend" for NMF to handle playback of mp3 and ogg files. I think
Nils has already produced some kind of synthesis implementation in
libgpe, though I haven't ever tried it.

p.
Received on Sun Sep 22 2002 - 09:53:43 EDT