On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 23:43 +0200, Seif Lotfy wrote: > > > Clocks: The clocks app is designed by the GNOME designers. > It is still more > > or less a prototype I am working on alongside Emily Gonyer. > We wanted to > > make use of Zeitgeist in storing "Alarms" as a type of > "scheduled event", it > > sounds like shoehorning but it is not. I am just hesitant > because I myself > > as a GNOME member do not want to use a technology or force > integrate it > > without GNOME agreeing of the usage of Zeitgeist. > > > It might help for you to elaborate why Zeitgeist is needed > there. > Clocks is intended to be a really simple application. > > > > We need to be able to store Alarms. And those alarms should still work > while the clocks application is closed. For that we need a central > storage for the scheduled event which is the alarm, to notify all > subscribers including Shell that an alarm went off. Same would go for > timers. What do you think?
I think that somebody with a hammer sees every problem as a nail. You don't need to store alarms in Zeitgeist, you need to store the fact that the alarm went off in Zeitgeist. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list