Sounds like a reasonable approach. The reason we looked at zg in the first place is because we were told that eds might not be a good solution for this. I implement it how you suggested and demo it u guess :)
On 4/19/12, Rodrigo Moya <rodr...@gnome-db.org> wrote: > 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 > >
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