On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 10:31 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > 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. > why not store them in e-d-s? you can create a separate calendar, disabled for viewing in the Evolution UI, which contains the events with the alarms. Thus, you don't need to have anything other than the already running evolution-alarm-notify process.
You can even, IIRC, set up the alarm so that it runs an application, rather than showing the Evolution alarm dialog. cheers _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list